Students at a Berkeley, N.J. school district are about to receive what many collegians already enjoy–a combo library and student ID card. The Central Regional School District is proposing to print an Ocean County Library card on the back of each student’s identification card. If an agreement between the school district and the county library […]

Students at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, can now use their campus cards to pay for on-campus parking by simply swiping their cards at designated meters. “We are providing as many payment options as possible to our students to increase convenience,” said a university spokesperson. “This will allow students to make non-cash payments without incurring a […]

University of South Carolina student government officials say taking the CarolinaCard off campus is closer than ever. According to the school’s newspaper, The Daily Gamecock, a proposal which goes into effect this fall would allow the card to be used at certain businesses that don’t compete with the vendor that handles the school’s dining services. […]

Spanish company SALTO Systems briefed members of the Higher Education Smart Card Association on the latest in campus access control systems during a meeting in London last week. End users from several higher educational institutions, including the University of Bristol, the University of Reading, Buckinghamshire New University and others heard about best practices in the […]

The CBORD Group, a provider of food and nutrition management and campus and cashless card systems, has added a video surveillance system to its menu of services that can oversee retail point of sale transactions. With CBORD POS Video Security, users can look up transactions in real time, or look up specific transactions after the […]

The State of South Carolina has tapped NuVision Networks, Napa, Calif., to provide its colleges and universities with the company’s CampusOne One Card system. The One Card integrated suite includes ID card production; commerce, event and door access transaction systems; cashless vending and laundry; online student voting, e-commerce, event ticketing and parking permit registration; and […]

Florida Institute of Technology, founded a year after the Sputnik launch in 1957, has partnered with PNC Bank, to provide banking services for its more than 9,000 students, faculty and staff. The new service will emphasize money management and financial education. As part of this arrangement, PNC, based in Pittsburgh, Penn., will host financial literacy […]

Indiana University, Bloomington, is integrating keyless entry and video surveillance at all of its residences halls. It’s a project that’s been ongoing for about 10 years. “It started with keyless entry to just the exterior doors,” said a university spokesperson. “Now we are moving toward room-level access through key cards. It’s a slow process because […]

A pilot program to expand the number of locations that accept the Washington University campus card is in the works, according to the school’s newspaper, Student Life. The current system enables student IDs to be used for several other purposes, including laundry, vending machine, food and campus bookstore purchases. Dining Services at the St. Louis, […]

Instead of signing in, as employees at India’s Karnatak University normally do, they’ll now have to register their attendance with fingerprints, according to the Times of India. The manual system had caused problems for the university’s department heads, preventing them from accurately tracking an employee’s attendance and whether he was on time or not. The […]