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Academic transcripts, which students need to get jobs, transfer or go on to graduate school, are almost universally withheld over unpaid bills, sometimes for very small amounts. A few colleges and universities are now changing that practice. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report
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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.