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 ...

Students need transcripts to prove they’ve earned their credentials when they apply for a job or for transfer to different college, but colleges have often withheld them over unpaid debt. California ...

Backers of legislation to ban colleges and universities from withholding college transcripts over unpaid balances could not find enough support in the House last session, but they hope that the ...

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 ...

Graduation can be unachievable for students with institutional debt. The Student Loan Fund is a student borrower-led organization that understands the negative impact all forms of student debt have on ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) — As Oakland City University students work to transfer to other schools to finish their college careers ...