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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.
Three freshmen women are suspended after allegedly being pictured partying without masks at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, according to reports.
The University of Massachusetts will hold a series of celebrations honoring 2021 graduates, which begin this week at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and UMass Lowell. Nearly 19,000 students are graduating in total.
Another Side Effect of the Lousy Jobs Report: Companies Could Raise Wages?
Another news report this week looked at another possible effect of the jobs report: Companies seem to be raising wages, and they may end up raising them even further.
The jobs report issued last week was widely seen as disappointing, as the economy added 266,000 jobs in April. Per Reuters, the report was expected to add as many as 1 million due to the effects of the American Rescue Plan. Another government report this week found that job openings had reached a new record total of 8.1 million.
“The April report instead raised a broad set of questions about the complicated interplay among peoples decisions about whether to work during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, constraints stemming from the lack of child care and closed schools, the slowing pace of COVID-19 vaccinations, global supply bottlenecks for critical goods like semiconductors, and the enhanced federal unemployment benefits that may be encou