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Colleges Come Under Closer Scrutiny For Holding Transcripts Hostage Over Unpaid Bills The University of Massachusetts Amherst is seen in a file photo. One student who missed his final housing bill here offered to pay it, but after collection fees and other charges were added, he gave up. The university blocked him from obtaining his academic transcript. Kate Flock/The Hechinger Report Share James Smith missed his final housing payment to the University of Massachusetts Amherst when he spent a...

Share this: 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 The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. James Smith...

Kafi Dixon is one of the producers of "A Reckoning in Boston" and a subject of the film. (Courtesy) Late one night in an adult education classroom in Dorchester, Kafi Dixon compares the toll of living in an environment that upholds white supremacy to a “slow drip, drip, on a hard stone.” Her comment prompts a burst of discussion. One student ups the comparison to a trickle and the group shares a laugh when another adds, “Turn that faucet off!” Drawn to the intimacy and transformative po...

By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff May 6, 2021 Dorchester resident Kafi Dixon is one of the subjects featured in "A Reckoning in Boston." “A Reckoning in Boston,” a new documentary film that focuses on two Dorchester residents enrolled in a night course at Codman Square Health Center, will make its debut at the Independent Film Festival of Boston today (Thurs., May 6).  Director James Rutenbeck initially expected to make a film about the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free educational...

Race matters at this year’s IFFBoston Peter Keough © Lost Nation Pictures From "A Reckoning in Boston." Unsurprisingly, many of the documentaries in the virtual 2021 IFFBoston (May 6-16) reflect the traumas of 2020 — in particular the ugly surge in racism. Here are three that report on that phenomenon with painful clarity. James Rutenbeck’s “ A Reckoning in Boston” might be seen as a more pessimistic supplement to Frederick Wiseman’s “City Hall” (2020). Rutenb...

Free Minds Community Liaison Company Overview Foundation Communities (FC) is a local, homegrown nonprofit. Founded in 1990, we provide affordable, attractive homes and free on-site support services for thousands of families, veterans, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. We offer an innovative, proven model that empowers our residents and neighbors to achieve educational success, financial stability, and healthier lifestyles. We own and operate 25 communities all over Austin and in Nort...

Arts & Culture Briefs Performers in “Restoring Community: Valley Writers Inspiring Theatre” include Annelise Lawson, Phanésia Pharel, Tony Aidan Vo, and Austin Jones Submitted photo Published: 4/6/2021 2:52:16 PM CitySpace series to conclude with virtual event EASTHAMPTON — The fourth and final evening of CitySpace Presents virtual series will take place Sunday, April 18, and will feature area actors performing some of western Massachusetts’s esteemed literary figures’ writings. �...

Jeannette E. Riley KINGSTON, R.I. – April 7, 2021 – Jeannette E. Riley, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University Rhode Island, has been named to the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. Riley joins four other new members on the 19-member board. Their terms began April 1. “These leaders bring experience in strategic storytelling and branding, higher education, finance, and business development,” the humanities council said in its April 6 pr...

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SPRINGFIELD –Springfield residents and beyond are getting the opportunity to study the history of civic engagement in America while also writing their own stories about democracy through a new Clemente Course called “This Is Your Democracy.”