Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation offers institutional loans with a 7 percent interest rate. The company has explained to investors several times how its loan program helps them comply with ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The much-maligned college transcript is finally going digital. A small group of private firms are seeing increasing demand for their repositories for e-transcripts, as colleges move away from paper ...

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona this month said colleges withholding transcripts from students who owe them money drives inequitable outcomes, marking the first time ever the nation's top ...

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 ...