Watch our webinar to learn how higher education institutions can stay compliant with Nacha Rules, strengthen fraud monitoring, and protect sensitive financial data across the ACH Network.
Strengthen ACH Compliance Across Campus Payments
Higher education institutions rely on the ACH Network for tuition payments, student refunds, payroll, vendor disbursements, and more. With this reliance comes an obligation to comply with evolving ACH Rules, policies, and procedures. Ensuring fraud monitoring and data security compliance is critical to safeguard sensitive financial information, minimize fraud risk, and maintain institutional trust. Join CampusGuard’s ACH expert and Bluefin’s data security leaders for a deep dive into how ACH Rules impact higher education.
Key Webinar Takeaways
Understand who Nacha is, how it governs the ACH Network, and why it matters for higher education.
Explore some of the most common ACH transaction types on campus: tuition, housing, refunds, donations, payroll, vendor payments, and more.
Learn about key ACH Rules and amendments coming into effect in 2025–2026, including fraud monitoring, company entry descriptions, and data security requirements.
Gain insight into best practices for compliance, from fraud prevention to secure data storage, and how they reduce institutional risk.
Discover how trusted partners like Bluefin and CampusGuard can help your institution assess, prepare, and comply with Nacha requirements.
Ruth A. Harpool
AAP, APRP, CTP
CampusGuard Treasury Solutions Advisor, Nacha ACH Network Advisory Board Member
Ruston Miles
Bluefin Founder, Chief Strategy & Development Officer
About Ruth A. Harpool, AAP, APRP, CTP
Ruth, a Treasury Solutions Advisor for CampusGuard, provides consulting in the areas of treasury operations, payments, and payments risk management. She has over 35 years of experience in banking services, banking operations, not-for-profit university treasury cash management, and payments management operational leadership. Ruth leverages her insight, expertise, and hands-on knowledge to help CampusGuard clients discover hard and soft cost savings, increase revenue, and reduce risk while focusing on compliance and security.
Before joining CampusGuard, Ruth served as the Managing Director of Treasury Operations at Indiana University (IU). She held university-wide responsibility for all incoming and outgoing banking and merchant service processes, financial vendor and banking relationships, cash management processes, and payments compliance for various payment rules and regulations (e.g., ACH, PCI DSS). Ruth began working for IU in 2002 and held various positions of increasing responsibility within Treasury over her 18 years there. Preceding IU, she spent nearly 14 years at a large national bank, holding roles in branch management, operations management, and cash and treasury management services.
Ruth is a member of the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), EPCOR, and the Nacha ACH Network Advisory Board. She is the co-founder of The Payments Academy, a non-profit organization that provides learning and collaboration opportunities for colleges and universities in payments and payments risk management.
She graduated from Indiana University with a BA in Economics in 1998. Ruth holds the following professional designations: Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Accredited ACH Professional (AAP), and Accredited Payments Risk Professional (APRP), achieving the latter in 2018 in the inaugural class of APRPs. At the time, she was one of less than 150 individuals carrying all three credentials. Ruth proudly describes herself as a payments geek, can translate technical (IT) jargon modestly, and is fluent in the languages of banking, payments, and higher education.
