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Open Campus partners with local newsrooms to deliver
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Cleveland State doubles down on ‘transcript trap’

Higher education has lots of practices and policies in place. One of them is called transcript withholding. It even has its own nickname, of sorts: the “transcript trap.”  Here’s how that works. If a college student owes a school money…

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We don’t set up separate bureaus in cities. Instead, we form deep partnerships with existing newsrooms, combining our subject-matter knowledge with their local understanding.


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