SUNY stops withholding transcripts from students with debt
Students often need proof of their academic record to transfer to another institution or apply for higher-level academic programs or employment. A movement to stop colleges from holding back the transcripts of indebted students predates the pandemic, but the health crisis’s fallout sharpened focus on the practice and others that fuel inequities.
Adult learners, low-income students, and those who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups are the most likely to have earned college credit but not a credential due to institutions withholding this paperwork, according to a 2020 report by research nonprofit Ithaka S+R.
Even Harvard Has to Care about the Student Value Proposition – Or Not
What’s really interesting about Harvard’s decision is that rather than explore how they might create a better value proposition for undergraduate education students, Harvard being Harvard, with the help of a $40M donation, shifted the cost to external donors and moved the program to the graduate level, where it will be part of a fifth-year program largely funded by an external source rather than by student-customers.
Are College Leaders in Denial?
In the same survey, two thirds of presidents claim that their institutions have the capacity to meet the mental health needs of their students, yet another national 2022 survey found that nine out of 10 students report that their campus is in the midst of a full blown mental health crisis! Can both be true?