The State University of New York, the U.S.'s largest public comprehensive higher education system, will no longer withhold academic transcripts from students with outstanding debt, it announced this week. The decision, effective immediately, came after the state's governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, said she would direct all public institutions to cease the practice. Hochul said she would introduce legislation to mandate all colleges in the state to do so as well.
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