Virginia Tech has renewed its three-year commitment to using Everbridge Aware to provide secure notification services for its VT Alerts system, an emergency communications program maintained by the University. For the past three years, it has relied on Everbridge Aware to deliver voice and text notification to faculty, staff, and students. After the events of […]

Students at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, N.Y., have had more features added to their campus ID card. Instead of having to use a credit card or cash at the bookstore, a student can put money onto the school ID and make purchases with it. It’s called Cardinal Cash and is separate from the Dining […]

Students at Australia’s University of Canberra are getting a new student card backed by one of the country’s big four banks that can be used to make purchases across the campus and beyond. The contactless PayPass card can be used to make purchases under $100. Contactless readers have already been installed at retailers, cafes and […]

Southwestern Oregon Community College, Cocos Bay, has paired with campus card service provider CardSmith to launch the Laker One Card, the college’s new official ID card that includes door access and meal plans for its 12,000 students. CardSmith’s software as a service solution is now processing meal plan transactions at the college’s dining hall. Southwestern […]

Since its announced launch less than a year ago, more than 50 institutions have adopted the Blackboard and Sony Electronics contactless FeliCa-powered platform that was developed specifically for U.S. higher education institutions. Students at these 50 schools use contactless ID cards to get into secure buildings and facilities, pay for books, meals and laundry and […]

NuVision Networks has rolled out its second-generation Campus Center for use in its CampusONE operating systems. Campus Center is a customizable Web portal used by colleges and universities to help streamline One Card use across campus. The center enables cardholders to view account balances and transaction history, transfer money between accounts or place a lost […]

Instead of a paper check in their mailboxes, students at Santa Fe College, Gainesville, Fla. are receiving anothert option of having their financial aid checks deposited directly into their accounts. Ginger Gibson, the college’s vice president of finance, said the switch to the Higher One-backed service has been nearly a decade in the making, spurred […]

The “Nice Future Campus” project, an experimental program designed to apply the near field communication standard to the university campus of the future,was scheduled to launch among 100 students at the University of Nice in Sophia Antipolis. Billed as the first virtual student card, the program will include a context-based location information service where students, […]

Texas is preparing new voter ID legislation naming the types of ID cards that will be accepted at the polls. Missing from the bill is a student ID card issued by the state’s colleges and universities. Five forms of identification were approved in the bill including a driver’s license, state ID card, military ID, concealed […]

The BlackboardPay Campus Card Program was honored as the best government-funded prepaid card program in the 2011 Paybefore Awards. Winners in each of 15 categories will now compete in the Best-in-Category distinction which will be announced during an award ceremony at the Prepaid Expo USA on March 7 at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, […]