Transcripts and grades could zip around California’s community- college system at Internet speeds if a new system is adopted. But colleges may be reluctant to pay the $5,000 annual fee for the service.
CCCTran, launched by the California community colleges’ chancellor’s office, is designed to take away post-office delays and the occasional sloppiness of clerks who fill out the wrong forms, the news site InsideBayArea reports. It enables subscribing institutions to view actual transcripts either through a standard Web browser or as a printable PDF form.
Eight community colleges are now testing CCCTran. But for it to take hold, each member of the 100-plus California community-college system would have to buy in—a unanimity that has been hard to find in the past, InsideBayArea reports. —Josh Fischman
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