Oakland University's housing department is mulling changes to its meal plan structure that would eliminate transfer meals that are seeing students eating at retail dining locations on campus rather than visit the university's dining hall. The transfer meals have seen...
Vending is a core component of virtually every campus card program and for all the talk of how student IDs have evolved over time, vending has come a long way, too. The shift to cashless vending in particular has brought...
A laundry machine shortage at one University of Mary Washington residence hall is painting a cautionary tale for residence halls of every size. A lack of washers and dryers at the university's Jefferson Hall is making laundry more of a...
Penn State's University Park and Altoona campuses are participating in a laundry pilot that sends notifications when machines are ready to be unloaded. Dubbed WashAlert, the system is designed to help reduce both the overall time spent in the laundry...
For students at the University of Pennsylvania, meal plan usage has decreased in recent years. So the university's business services have implemented a 5% discount on dining dollar usage at certain campus dining locations in an effort to incentivize the...
Campus card system provider, CBORD, has partnered with FreedomPay to provide higher education and other verticals with increased payment data security. The partnership will provide CBORD with access to the FreedomPay Commerce Platform, enabling CBORD customers to deploy a PCI-validated,...
Higher One Holdings, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the company to an affiliate of Blackboard for $5.15 in cash per share. The all-cash sale price represents a 37.3% premium over the closing price of the Higher...
ACI, provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, and Ohio's Cedarville University have partnered to facilitate the university's tuition payments across multiple channels. The partnership will leverage ACI’s UP Bill Payment Solution that integrates into Colleague by Ellucian, to...
Payment solution provider, Apriva, completed EMV certification for a new unattended card reader that can accept both campus card payments as well as EMV chip-enabled bankcards. The BV1000 card reader, developed by Globalcom Engineering, connects through the Apriva Gateway to...
Blackboard has acquired point-of-sale manufacturer Sequoia Retail Systems, a provider of comprehensive POS solutions for educational institutions. The move will bring new dining, retail and bookstore POS and inventory/operations management capabilities to Blackboard Transact, the education technology company’s campus ID,...
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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
