Thursday, July 31, 2008
Students will no longer be able to pick up refund checks on their tuition. Starting this fall, refunds will either be directly deposited into students’ bank accounts or mailed to them.
Jeanne Rooney, associate comptroller, said the bursar’s office had already seen a decrease in the number of students who were picking up checks. She said last spring about 700 students picked up checks, compared to 2,200 students two years ago. She said about 7,000 total students received refund checks.
“We thought the students were saying, ‘We want to do direct deposit,’” Rooney said. “The money instantaneously hits your bank account, which is the direction we want students to go because you directly get your money.”
If students elect not to have their refund directly deposited, a refund check will be mailed to them as soon as their refund is calculated. Rooney said that in the past when students didn’t pick up their checks, the checks weren’t mailed out until several days later.
“We thought, let’s go ahead and speed the whole process up for everybody,” Rooney said. “We think the students are just telling us, ‘Just give us the money the fastest way possible.’”
This is the first semester that Tasia Rayton, Austin, Texas, senior, will receive a refund check. She said she set up a direct deposit account and wouldn’t have picked up her check even if that were an option.
“Direct deposit is convenient and I’ll get it immediately,” she said.
She said she thought students wouldn’t care about not being able to pick up their check.
“I don’t think people will mind as long as their money is getting to them,” she said. “Most students have bank accounts anyway.”
— Edited by Ramsey Cox
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