Illinois public colleges join others in ending transcript holds

Image:  On a recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed's news and analysis podcast, Martin Kurzweil of Ithaka S+R described college and university policies that withhold academic transcripts from students who owe money to the institution as "pernicious." Students often need those transcripts, which prove that they have previously earned credits or credentials, to continue their educations or get jobs that might pay them enough to repay their debts, Kurzweil said, so the policies are not...