Schools in the Florida Seminole County school district have decided to drop its four-year-old program involving seven schools that saw students utilizing a fingerprint-based authentication system to pay for their school lunch, according to an Orlando Sentinel article. The decision was based almost entirely on the savings dropping the system would mean for the district […]

Heartland Payment Systems introduced the next generation of its WaveRider Laundry System, offering an enhanced wireless payment and account management solution for university and higher education institutions. The WaveRider system provides a secure method of accepting credit and debit card payments while enhancing convenience for students and staff. The technology features upgraded reporting capabilities and […]

In an effort to improve campus safety and security for students and staff, visitors gaining access to Detroit Public Schools are now background-checked through FAST-PASS. FAST-PASS is the visitor management system developed by Security Identification Systems Corp. (SISCO). The system scans visitors’ driver licenses and State ID cards and cross-checks the information with national sex-offender […]

A word to describe the state of campus banking relationships in 2010 is stagnation. According to CR80News’ latest survey of financial institutions, the number of campus card and bank partnerships remained virtually unchanged from 2009 to 2010. Overall growth in 2010 was less than five percent, by far the smallest increase since 2003 when CR80News […]

A pair of laptops containing the personal information of hundreds of special education students and their teachers was recently stolen from the Illinois State Board of Education, according to NBC Chicago. According to district officials, approximately 1,800 students had information on the stolen laptops including Social Security numbers. Teacher information was also stored on the […]

Starting new for the 2011 season, students at Purdue University purchasing football or men’s basketball season tickets will no longer receive printed tickets, according to the Purdue Exponent. Season tickets will be uploaded to the student’s ID card, which the student will then swipe to gain entrance into the games. The new method is not […]

The University of Arizona has partnered up with Mulitcard to implement a new identity management platform that will be responsible for managing and administering the institution’s CatCard campus ID program, which consists of 51,000 students, faculty and staff. The new solution replaces the university’s previous identity and access cards installation based on proprietary technology. Thanks […]

Evolis announced the launch of ZENIUS, its next-generation card printer that is focused on the user. With the new card printer, Evolis offers a single-sided color printer that is compact, modular and designed to be easy-to-use. With ZENIUS, Evolis has redesigned its printing engine and overall environment with a new design, software architecture and enhanced […]

So you’re a two-year institution looking to take it to the next level, eh? Your students demand the same services offered at a larger four year-year university and administrators are determined to enhance operational efficiencies. But, a shrinking budget says otherwise. Well don’t worry because the CBORD Group is hosting a webinar series discussing just […]

Jolly Technologies was giving demonstrations of its ID Flow system at the National Association of Campus Card Users Annual Conference. ID Flow is a visitor management system that enables a school to scan a driver license, capture a photo and fingerprint biometric, check that data against a watch list and then issues a credential, says […]