In partnership with Google, Columbus State University in Georgia recently developed a mobile application for Android-based devices - that ultimately provides a substitute for the campus ID card. Students can use this app to check out books from the library...
Card system vendors look to extend offerings to include refund and aid disbursement services By Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications Disbursing financial aid is time consuming, labor intensive and costly for colleges and universities. The traditional check cutting process creates...
The multi-function, multi-app smart card may not be such a mythical beast Multi-function cards on college campuses aren’t new. Student IDs have paid for meals, accessed residence halls and checked out library books for decades. But adding applications that can...
The CBORD Group, provider of campus card and integrated security solutions to colleges and universities, unveiled the latest release of its CS Gold campus card solution. The new release (Version 6) looks to make it easier for colleges to manage...
Programs drawing interest from national retailers Dominican College in Orangeburg, N.Y. has 2,050 students with about 700 living on campus. The school’s campus ID is used for access to meal plans, physical areas, vending, photocopying, laundry and an off-campus program...
The CBORD Group announced that Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals will become a partner of the company’s Off-Campus Commerce Program, utilizing the transaction processing host called UGyrd. The new system will extend food programs for hospital’s approximate 27,000 students and employee...
Students at Cambrian College will want to make sure they have their student ID when entering the campus fitness center, or they may as well get a paid gym membership off-campus. In January, the campus began enforcing policies which hits...
A local business is now offering an off campus meal plan for San Diego students, which provides them with a refillable debit card that can be used at 27 participating restaurants throughout the city, according The Daily Aztec. Appropriately named...
Blackboard announced the availability of Release 3.6 of Blackboard Transact, and with it the introduction of a contactless campus system that aims to make the student experience both convenient and secure. Utilizing Sony’s Felica technology, Blackboard Transact permits equipped cards...
Wells Fargo was awarded a contract with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to provide financial services for the RebelCard, a multi-function campus ID designed to provide students, faculty and staff a single card to use for a variety of...
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Attn: friends in the biometrics space. Nominations close Friday for the annual Women in Biometrics Awards. Take five minutes to recognize a colleague or even yourself. http://WomenInBiometrics.com
Feb. 1 webinar explores how mobile ordering enhanced campus life, increased sales at UVA and Central Washington @Grubhub @CBORD
