In an age of electronic information, it seems obvious--exchange student transcripts electronically, thereby cutting costs, speeding the process, and making fraud more difficult. But in a process that ...

Paper transcripts at Northwestern could become a thing of the past. NU’s registrar’s office began offering students the option to purchase electronic transcripts April 26. Electronic transcripts ...

It’s a problem that has been around as long as students have been applying to college: the lost high school transcript. Teenagers complain about it. Admissions counselors agonize over it. Last year, ...

Miami University offers online transcript ordering to current students through the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) self-service secure site. All transcript orders must be placed online.

The death toll of paper documents on campus may have just been sounded by the Office of the Registrar. This month, the U of C became the second school in the nation, after Pennsylvania State ...

"We get wheelbarrows of paper documents in the mail every day," according to Michael Cook, senior associate director of admissions at Michigan State University. "Our goal is to become paperless here ...

The Kansas State Department of Education has contracted with an outside company to provide electronic transmission of transcripts to colleges and universities. The contract is with Los Angeles-based ...

When students in Delaware transfer to another school district, they request paper copies of their records and take them to the new district's office to register. But that's as far as the records go.

However, paper-based records aren’t quite a thing of the past. The most recent published figures show that only 78 percent of ...