An incident involving an alleged gunman at St. Paul College in Minnesota has turned into a lesson in identity vetting for campus card program managers everywhere. On Sept. 23 the technical school went on lockdown when a female student reported seeing a man with a gun in a campus elevator upset over his financial aid. […]

At the Illinois Institute of Technology an integrated system combining the campus card, physical access and video surveillance technology is improving safety and efficiency for the 7,400 students. The Odyssey PCS card system and the CS Access system from CBORD have been integrated with video solutions from NICE Systems campus wide. When a new residential […]

The schedule for the 2010 National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU) Annual Conference is out and there are some significant changes from year’s past. April in the desert is a great time and the Hilton Tapatio Cliffs is a great resort so the time and place should be right, but how about the schedule? […]

Merchants around Westfield State College (Westfield, Ma.) seem to have taken to the campus card Owl Bucks program in a very positive way. The program launched two years ago enabling spending at both on campus at places like Subway, Dunkin’ Donuts and the campus bookstore as well as off campus at about 20 retailers including […]

According to an article in the UC Berkeley student newspaper, some merchants participating in the Cal 1 Card’s off-campus debit card program are less than satisfied with the results. A representative from a local bookstore that accepts the card said it accounts for less than one-percent of total sales, yet half the customers are students. […]

If you think that campus ID programs aren’t using smart cards, think again. More than 200 universities have signed on to work with Banco Santander’s University Smart Card program. The massive financial institution based in Spain has issued more than 4 million smart cards to the university ID cardholders for secure contactless access to facilities, […]

With the help of wireless access control readers from Schlage and the campus card solution from Blackboard, students at Georgia Tech no longer need a physical ticket to get into home football games. At the school’s Bobby Dodd Stadium, turnstyles were outfitted with card readers to enable card swipe and subsequent eligibility verification to grant […]

The North Carolina State University student paper suggests the merger of three separate financial accounts associated with the official AllCampus Card. Currently separate accounts are used for debit purchases, copy services, and discretionary mealplan purchases. Student government representatives, according to an article in the campus newspaper, would like to see these combined into a single […]

Dates: October 1 – 2, 2009 Location: Warsaw, Poland Venue: The Westin, Al. Jan Pawla II 21 URL: http://www.frontex.europa.eu/newsroom/news_releases/art67.html Contact: monica.gariup@frontex.europa.eu Description: On 1-2 October 2009 in Warsaw, the Swedish EU Presidency and Frontex will hold a workshop/conference on biometric technologies (stationary and mobile) for air, land, and sea border control. Key decision-makers responsible for […]

Blackboard is offering two free webinars for campus card administrators this week. Today at 1:00 pm Eastern the one-hour session explores ways to elevate the profile of your campus card system in the eyes of your campus executive management team. Be viewed as an crucial enterprise solution and you will be treated, and maybe even […]