How to Use bursar in a Sentence

bursar

noun
  • Or provided college tuition that doesn’t make it to the bursar?
    WSJ, 30 Jan. 2017
  • For example, the bursar may share with financial aid staff and advisers the names of students who haven’t paid their bills.
    Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The Times of London reports that bursar Andrew Parker made them a counteroffer.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The bursar’s office at Morehouse has been busy ironing out the logistics of Smith’s unprecedented gift.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The arrangement is striking because universities have the tools to collect payments through their bursar's offices.
    Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • The arrangement is striking because universities have the tools to collect payments through their bursar’s offices.
    Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2017
  • The university last year launched a partnership between the bursar’s office, which handles students’ bills, and the school’s Student Wellness Center to offer counseling to students who might be struggling to pay their bills on time.
    Jillian Berman, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Student records may be reactivated for a number of reasons, such as the student requesting a transcript, making a bursar payment, registering for a course or making an academic advising appointment.
    Christine Fernando, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The work typically done by secretaries, bursars, principals, and other administrators can be handled remotely, leaving only three nonteaching staff at each school.
    Dayo Olopade, WIRED, 12 Nov. 2013
  • While her unlikely role as the quiet bursar to anti-immigration organizations has been previously reported, her motivation and engagement in the immigration issue remained largely hidden.
    Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019

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