Penn State Altoona, a part of the Penn State University system, is on high alert after recent security breach that could have potentially exposed the personal information of some 12,000 alumni, faculty and staff, according to The Altoona Mirror. University officials state that the breach only poses a threat to students and faculty predating 2005, […]

PNC Bank and Loyola University Chicago have teamed together to provide personal financial services to the university’s nearly 16,000 students, faculty and staff. As part of the new campus banking relationship, PNC will host financial literacy workshops for Loyola students and staff, covering topics ranging from basic banking to credit management and identity protection, savings […]

Gordon College, located in Barnesville, Ga., announced that it has renewed its contract with Higher One for its technology and payment services. With an enrollment of approximately 5,000 students, Gordon College campus will continue to utilize Higher One’s OneDisburse Refund Management funds disbursement service to simplify the refund process, for both administrators and students. Higher […]

University officials at the De Montfort University are the considering an alternative method for tracking student attendance, reports to the Leicester Mercury. The university plans to insert electronic chips into each student ID, which would be read by nearby Wi-Fi access points, or Hotspots. The new technology would effectively enable faculty and staff an automated […]

The CBORD Group and ASSA ABLOY recently announced new integration capabilities between ASSA ABOLY’s offline locks and CBORD’s CS Access IP-based door access control technology. The new integration will enable the ASSA ABLOY line of Corbin Russwin Access 700 PAC and SARGENT Passport 1000 PG offline locksets to be fully managed within the CS Access […]

Schools in the Panchkula, a district in the Indian state of Haryana, are looking to installing biometric attendance readers in an effort to combat the growing problem of teacher absenteeism, according to a Times of India article. The new technology is expected to be implemented in August. The introduction of biometrics is more of a […]

Heartland Payment Systems’ Campus Solutions, in partnership with Bridgeway Solutions, has been chosen as one of South Carolina’s preferred system providers for integrated ID solutions and local support. This arrangement with South Carolina will enable the state’s agencies and public colleges and universities to purchase Heartland Campus Solutions and Bridgeway Solution’s services without having to […]

Biometric Signature ID (BSI) has announced that its signature gesture biometric technology, BioSig-ID, has been chosen by online distance education consortium EduKan to verify student identity via the Web. The BioSig-ID solution was chosen by EduKan as a cost-conscious solution to the growing need for authentication of students guaranteeing they are who they claim to […]

Lane Community College, Eugene, Ore., is adding a key card system that will enable staff and faculty to use cards instead of keys to unlock doors and to get into specific buildings, according tot he student newspaper. “This technology is in wide use around the world and it has many different functionalities,” said Public Safety […]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a new voter identification law that requires voters to show an ID with a photo when voting. Student ID cards issued by universities can pass muster as long as they contain the student’s signature and have an expiration date that falls within two years of the card’s issuance. That […]