James Smith missed his final housing payment to the University of Massachusetts Amherst when he spent a year there in an exchange program on his way to a degree at the University of Minnesota.

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Higher-education institutions in British Columbia unveiled a new service on Tuesday for transferring student transcripts over the Internet, a move the colleges say will save considerable time and ...

OAKLAND — In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five ...

The Office of the Registrar maintains the permanent academic records for students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs, excluding the School for Social ...