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Campus Card Rules Criticized

The Department of Educations proposed rules would revamp how financial institutions do business with colleges.

By Tina Orem | Updated on July 17, 2015

The Department of Education may be just weeks away from issuing new rules that would overhaul how credit unions and banks work with colleges and universities. However, the fight over those rules is still raging, according to documents filed during the recently ended public comment period.

At issue is the Program Integrity and Improvement plan, which would prohibit colleges and universities from requiring students to deposit their financial aid dollars in accounts with specific financial institutions. It would also establish two types of arrangements between schools and financial institutions: Tier 1 arrangements, which are agreements to process federal aid on behalf of the school and offer accounts to students and parents; and Tier 2 arrangements, which involve agreements to market accounts directly to students and parents.

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