Blanket policies to withhold academic transcripts from students with outstanding loan debt to colleges are “abusive under the Consumer Financial Protection Act,” the Consumer Financial Protection ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Wednesday that prohibits colleges from withholding student transcripts because of unpaid debts or charging those who owe debt a higher fee to obtain their ...

California led the nation in 2020, outlawing a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. But five years later, 24 of the state’s ...

Tlaloc Fierro spent only a couple of semesters at Eckerd College, dropping out in the spring of 2007. But the $500 debt they accrued while there — and the consequences of it — followed Fierro for ...

A proposed ban to limit when colleges and universities can withhold a student’s transcript could help thousands of students, if not more than a million, access their credits and resume their college ...

A college transcript is one of the most vital components of any application, whether to graduate school or a company. At Cornell, student transcripts list course names, grades received and, most ...

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Tuesday March 28th, marks six weeks since Stone Academy announced it was closing its doors on hundreds of students. Students still do not have their own transcripts. An I-Team ...