More than 6 million former college students cannot access their college transcripts because their former school is holding the documents as ransom as a debt collection tactic. Many of them will get a ...

In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept ...

Sabrina Morel was three semesters into her education at CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City, with a goal of becoming a trauma surgeon. But in the spring of 2021, her plans ...

Baylor College of Medicine is pleased to announce a new student service now available for online transcript ordering and electronic transcript delivery. Students and alumni have two options for ...

Colleges with harmful transcript ransom policies refuse to release student transcripts due to unpaid tuition, on-campus parking tickets, books, fines or fees. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger ...

College transcripts are horrible. I say this not as a columnist but as an employer. Whenever my nonprofit policy group advertises a position, we get hundreds of résumés. Every applicant is a college ...

Now that the issue of the president’s birth certificate has been laid to rest (mostly), some conservatives are turning their attention to a new obsession: Barack Obama’s college transcripts. Last week ...

If you’ve ever taken a college course, you have an academic record. If you need to verify your academic credentials, such as when you’re applying to a new school or for employment, you may be asked ...

Transcript withholding can make it difficult for students to apply for jobs even if they’ve graduated, since they can’t prove to prospective employers that they have a degree. By Meredith Kolodner ...

We all know the way we fund college in this country is a mess, and that our current student loan debt situation is unsustainable. As higher education costs continue to rise and the value of some ...