If you’re in the seventh or eighth grade at the Anaheim Union High School District in California and you skip school four or more times, you’ll be carrying around a GPS device to make sure you come to class. In fact, each morning on school days, you’ll get an automated phone call reminding you to […]

A student manager at the Kitchener, Ontario campus of Wilfrid Laurier University, stole some $30,000 by issuing fake campus debit cards, some in the names of comic book characters. The scheme, which took place between 2001 and 2007, was first detected by another employee in the office. A later audit that cost the school $100,000 […]

About 7,600 Harvard ID cards that enable access to dorm rooms and other areas that required swipe access, stopped working for a while yesterday due to “a server configuration change.” The glitch was noticed about 4:30 a.m. but the affected cards were operational again by noon with minimal disruption to students’ lives. Most of the […]

Some students at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., found that phone numbers on the back of their student ID cards that would allow them to contact the school’s ID office were wrong. The same was true for the number for the school’s Student Legal Services, the student newspaper, The Flat Hat, reported. […]

Jolly Technologies, San Carlos, Calif., has integrated its Lobby Track Visitor Management software with an access control system from DSX Access Systems, Dallas. The integrated DSX/Lobby Track solution streamlines the registration and credentialing process for a visitor who needs to be issued an access card. Selected visitors are assigned an access card which is then […]

The University of Texas at Arlington has upgraded its one-card system to the point that the students and staff ID cards can be used to access appropriate buildings, make on- and off- campus purchases, and clock in and out of work. The university’s one-card system, implemented by campus card provider CBORD, is the cumulative effort […]

Campus card provider CardSmith has rolled out a “cash-to-card” solution that enables existing cardholders to check a card account balance and re-value their account using cash. An optional card dispensing module is also available enabling campus guests to purchase and use visitor cards. The Self-Service Card Station is good for busy locations such as libraries, […]

Another 16 colleges and universities have signed up for the CBORD Group’s off-campus management program, joining the nearly 100 other institutions using the company’s UGryd technology that allows campus cards to be used at off-campus locations. George Washington University, Washington D.C., Youngstown State University in Ohio, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Penn. and Clemson University in South […]

Students on college campuses across Canada this fall will have the opportunity to rent, instead of purchase, textbooks, using their campus cards, financial aid, or other forms of payment. Last year, Follett of Canada, an operator of college and university bookstores at 26 schools in Canada, saved students more than $500,000 in a pilot program […]

Schreiner University, Kerrville, Texas, will be streamlining payments on campus through integration of CASHNet ePayment and CASHNet Smartpay provided by Higher One Payments. Payments at Schreiner are currently processed manually through checks, credit cards and money orders. “Higher One will save our staff time by streamlining the cash processing function,” said controller Barbara von Brandt-Siemers. […]