Scrutiny grows of withholding transcripts to collect student debt

Image:  Should unpaid debts to their colleges stop students from getting jobs or continuing their educations? Some government officials don’t think so, and they are targeting transcript withholding, in which colleges and universities prevent former students from receiving academic transcripts they need for employment or enrollment at a new institution. This is a tiny piece of the $1.7 trillion student debt problem in American higher education, but more than most, it is in the...