Keystone College, Pa. selected campus card service provider CardSmith and its managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) transactions solution for meal plans and discretionary account services on the college’s Key Kard campus ID. Key Kard provides students cashless access to campus facilities and services including the bookstore, dining hall, retailing dining venues and library services, as well as […]

Sealy Independent School District (SISD), based out of Texas, is in the process of revamping its security policy – adding a new system of card swipe access points, in addition to more than 50 new video surveillance cameras. According to The Sealy News, the district has an $182,000 project plan that includes teachers and staff […]

Students in Cabell County middle and high schools will soon be paying for their meals using fingerprint scanning technology, according to The Herald-Dispatch. Cabell County joins other counties in West Virginia already using the technology in an effort to improve the speed and accuracy of school breakfast and lunch lines. The county sent out letters […]

The NFC project at Arizona State University (ASU) is becoming quite the celebrity. No longer are a student’s smart phones just the key to their social lives. It’s also the key to their dorm rooms, according to CBS 5 report. With only a small number of students and faculty members currently using the system, ASU […]

Keene State College (KSC) is prepping for the launch of a new “one card system” for students entering the fall semester in 2012. According to student newspaper, The Equinox, the new KSC one card will enable students to access to campus buildings, library privileges, laundry and on-campus vending, and enable cashless payment at certain on-campus […]

Ohio State Student Service Center (SSC) had a “facepalm” event happen after mistakenly sending out an email to students containing the names, student ID numbers, email address and outstanding balances on some 2,500 students. According to campus newspaper, The Lantern, an email was sent to a group of students with outstanding, unpaid fees on their […]

New York University is doing away with its old, outdated swipe machines and replacing it entirely with new, modern and secure electronic card readers. According to Washington Square News, students will no longer have to swipe the magnetic stripe on their ID cards when entering certain NYU buildings. Instead, students will be issued contactless smart […]

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies announced that access to buildings, identification, cafeteria purchases, library, bookstore purchases, printing and vending, in that order, are the leading applications for which American college students use their school issued ID cards. According to Security Info Watch, research also concluded that overall, the majority of college campuses are still using older […]