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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 year there as an exchange student on his way to a degree from the University of Minnesota. Strappe...

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 missed his final housing payment to the University of Massachusetts Amherst when he spent a year th...

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 potential of the Clemente Course in the Humanities -- designed to give adults with limited financial ...

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 experience offered in Codman Square for adults facing economic hardship and adverse circumstances. ...

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). Rutenbeck started his project five years ago with the intent of following students in Dorchester’s Cleme...