Re: Books charged to tuition accounts

From: John M. Hicks (jmhicks@gwu.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 16:15:15 EDT

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    Hello,

    We do not allow books to be charged a students bill, unless they are being
    sponsored by a Third Party. We give out about 50-75 vouchers per semester. We
    are private school with 20,000 students. Hopes this helps!

    John M. Hicks

    Financial Information Systems wrote:

    > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:06:26 -0400
    > From: "E: Pollitz, Carol A" <capollitz@vfcc.edu>
    > To: "'bursar-l@virginia.edu'" <bursar-l@virginia.edu>
    > Subject: Books charged to tuition accounts
    >
    > Our Financial Aid Director has informed me that we are the only school (that
    > she knows of) that does not allow students to charge their books to their
    > tuition account.
    >
    > If you don't allow students to charge books to their account, also please
    > respond why you do not allow books to be charged.
    >
    > If you did at one time allow it and then discontinued the process, please
    > explain why you changed.
    >
    > For those schools who currently issue vouchers, what dollar limit do you
    > use? What is the turn around time for the bookstore to get the charges to
    > you so that it can be put on the students account? Do you only issue a
    > voucher if the student will have a credit balance? What percentage of
    > students that you advance funds for end of withdrawing from school? How do
    > you collect the money if the financial aid package changes? Who takes
    > responsibility for the collection of funds if the package changes? How
    > early in the semester to you advance the funds?
    >
    > If you would be willing to share your process I would appreciate it.
    >
    > If I get enough responses, I'll post the responses to the list serve. Last
    > August the same questions were posted and 95 responses were received. I
    > hope to receive similar responses. Thanks for your help.
    >
    > Carol Pollitz, CPA
    > Comptroller
    > Valley Forge Christian College
    > 1401 Charlestown Road
    > Phoenixville, PA 19460
    > 610-917-1420
    > capollitz@vfcc.edu 

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    John M. Hicks
Director, Student Accounts Services
The George Washington University

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