On a recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, Martin Kurzweil of research and consulting service Ithaka S+R described college and university policies that withhold academic transcripts from students who owe money to the institution as “pernicious”, writes Doug Lederman for Inside Higher Ed. On Thursday 7 July, the University of Illinois system announced that its institutions had “ended the practice of restricting access to transcripts for students with past-due balances”. The move comes in the wake of a law signed by Governor J B Pritzker in May barring the use of the practice as of the 2022-23 academic year, although the Illinois system said the change was in the works when legislators passed the law.
