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 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 bursar’s office at Morehouse has been busy ironing out the logistics of Smith’s unprecedented gift.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • How the bursar’s office works, how registration and academics and the department and supervision and RAs and recruiting budgets and travel.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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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