Thirteen community colleges in Taipei City have agreed to use a single ID card that will store class history and volunteer work information. The Ministry of Education said it is part of an initiative to promote the concept of lifelong learning. Many people taking continuing education and other classes have complained about ending up with […]

Hamden, Conn.-based Quinnipiac University has experienced steady growth in recent years which necessitated expansion beyond its main campus. This expansion comes with the need to provide additional security for university personnel, as well as the nearly 8,000 students that live in campus residence halls. Securing buildings located in remote off-campus locations can be a challenge […]

Transit and tourism solutions provider Applied Card Technologies (ACT) and digital payments company sQuid have inked an $87 million deal to form a new corporate umbrella, Smart Transactions Group. The two UK start-ups currently operate contactless smart card-based networks, and now share plans to launch NFC and mobile phone-based solutions in the near future. ACT […]

Requiring students to participate financially with their printing and copying needs, no matter how meager the charge, can have a major impact on a college’s printing budget. That’s what small Meredith College, Raleigh, N.C. discovered when it changed to a print process powered by Pharos Systems. Meredith College was spending more than $90,000 a year […]

University of Maine students have developed an Android app that will help students find their way around campus. The program enables students and others to view weekly class schedules, class locations, textbooks and contact information for instructors. It also provides information on parking, a building map and a directory of faculty and staff. The students […]

The University of Sunderland in northeast England has chosen IronKey as its ‘de facto’ portable security provider to help protect access to data such as research papers for its network of academics around the world. In addition to protecting its global network from using unsecured networks and internet cafes, IronKey Enterprise will also give the […]

Higher One Payments, a financial services company focused on higher education, has partnered with Adirondack Solutions at Ohio University in Athens to integrate Higher One’s CASHNet eMarket online payment portal with Adirondack’s Housing Director software that aids in the management of college and university residential housing. Through this partnership Adirondack will benefit from the PCI […]

Zebra’s newest ID card printer, the ZXP Series 3, is offering high-end features at a budget price, which makes the printer ideal for many plastic card applications, including standard employee badges, student IDs, access control cards and high-security financial cards. Until now, organizations looking for more complex ID card printing capabilities had to look at […]

AVISIAN Publishing is happy to announce the availability of a new interactive PDF viewer allowing subscribers one more way to access their content. The spring 2011 issue of CR80News will be the first issue made available and all plans indicate continuing this service for subsequent issues. The interactive feature allows for a miniature mode that […]

Republicans have proposed changes to a voter ID bill that would enable college identification cards to be used at the polls. However, Democrats call the changes “meaningless” because the revised bill calls for the campus card to meet too many requirements that could still keep students away from the polls. The bill originally barred use […]