California and other states began blocking colleges from withholding students' transcripts for unpaid bills five years ago.

Stanford University’s registrar, Thomas C. Black, isn’t surprised that fewer employers are asking for college transcripts these days. The old-school version, with its list of abbreviated course titles ...

Students may request to have official transcripts of their UB academic work sent to themselves or designated third parties. Unofficial transcripts are available through HUB for students who attended ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If you receive an offer of admission and confirm your intent to enroll, you will be required to submit your official transcript(s) to Graduate Admissions from all institutions where credit was earned.

California’s 2020 ban on transcript withholding marked a pivotal shift in higher-education debt policy, aiming to free ...

New York state has banned a tradition known as “transcript ransoming” — effectively banning colleges from withholding transcripts as a student debt collection tool. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed ...

The City University of New York is temporarily suspending a long-standing policy of withholding transcripts from former students with unpaid bills, university officials announced Wednesday. Students ...

The University of Wisconsin announced they will update student transcripts to include a new value of “Good Academic Standing” to indicate positive academic standing. In an email sent to undergraduate ...

At the start of the 2024/25 academic year, the secondary education sector saw a massive reform with the introduction of a new SHS curriculum by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment ...