Bowdoin College students and faculty returning from winter break next month will be receiving a new ID card expected to increase on-campus security. The Brunswick, Maine school is in the process of converting to a new one-card system from campus...
Time and attendance, identification and access authorization are three of the applications available on the campus card used by students at the University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Other applications on the card supplied by Swiss contactless card provider LEGIC Identsystems,...
Due to student demand, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, revamped its meal plan for the fall semester to include off-campus merchant options. The university inked a partnership with Off-Campus Advantage, a subsidiary of campus card provider The CBORD Group, to...
Worms are those slippery, slimy organisms one places on the end of a hook for fishing. Typically they also may be the first thing someone dissects in high school biology class. They typically aren’t what one would donate to a...
Expanded service delivery to students creates need for cards in this untapped market By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates haven’t had the same level of access to a campus card. That’s an untapped and underserved...
Clearwater Christian College in Florida has implemented a One Card system from Heartland Campus Solutions that gives the school flexibility to add services as needed. For now, the card will be good for the library, meals and event tracking. It...
The University of Tulsa in Oklahoma has joined the ranks of colleges allowing their students to use their ID card off-campus at several restaurants. Previously, Gold Dollars were mainly good for use in laundry machines or at the bookstore. The...
Students from the University of Missouri-Kansas City are slated to get new student ID cards next semester that will retain all features from the current card but will also add “Roo Bucks.” This will allow students to put money on...
The eventual goal is interoperability, but issuing the card and adding functionality is first By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor In the past 18 months, two companies have issued more than one million dual-interface smart card IDs to students of 450...
But will its use expand beyond access control and into other card applications? By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor It wasn’t too long ago that contactless technology was considered the Cadillac of card technologies, but decreasing prices and increasing security concerns...
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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
