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

The National Student Clearinghouse (NSCH) is the authorized vendor for delivery of official Boston College transcripts. Transcripts can be ordered to be sent electronically or on paper via regular or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

College transcripts are vital documents not just for students but also for employers and colleges. Students need them to show both what they have studied and how they performed. Employers want them so ...

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 ...