New Jersey’s Carteret County Public School System is revamping its security by implementing a computer-based visitor management system in all of its 16 schools, according to a local news report. The system leverages a database of visitor information and notes individuals allowed to check-in and -out students. A photo of the person is made for […]

Windward School, a college-preparatory school located in Los Angeles, has partnered with CardSmith to launch a new multi-function ID card for the school’s students, parents, staff and other stakeholders The new Windward OneCard ID card features a pre-paid spending account that students can use to make purchases at student store and food service locations, as […]

Higher One Payments and Travelex have partnered up to create the CASHNet ePayment system, intended to provide universities and colleges with improved processing to collect tuition and other payments from students studying abroad in the United States. The over-the-Web service gives international students, parents and other authorized users the ability to view current balances and […]

Colorado State University is making on-campus luxuries like dining and laundry services more accessible to non-CSU students with the introduction of RamCash Express, reports to a campus student newspaper. The RamCash Express card enables off-campus, non-CSU students to pre-load money onto a card, much like a retail gift-card, and purchase food on-campus venues and pay […]

An application developed for Virginia State University, but now offered to all clients called One Card Package, can accelerate the package pickup process for students, says Fred Emery, vice president and general manager of Heartland Campus Solutions. Students can be notified electronically that a package has been delivered and then swipe their student ID to […]

ColorID recently appointed two new account managers for its higher education market – Kristen Hendrix and Matt Genovese. ColorID said that the new addition would better position itself to service and support its higher education customers. ColorID also announced that it recently expanded its product line into the higher education market, including biometric readers, logical […]

Students at Arizona-based Prescott High School are protesting the school’s newly enforced ID badges by taping them to their foreheads, making them into t-shirts, defacing them with their favorite sports teams and cartoon characters and one student even hanging his through the hole in his stretched earlobe, reports The Daily Courier. The school recently ordered […]

The Flames Pass, the official student ID at Lynchburg, Va.-based Liberty University, just got a whole lot hotter with the addition of a new declining balance account for students to use at off-campus restaurants – called Flames Cash. Part of the Flames Pass, which already provides access to campus facilities, events and activities, the Flames […]

Solano Community College in Fairfield, Calif. has partnered with Higher One to help electronically distribute financial aid and other refund disbursements to its students. The campus primarily mailed paper refund checks in the past. With the new system students will be able to receive their refund in two additional ways, either direct deposited to a […]

Villanova University set up a lottery system to help manage demand for its popular men’s basketball games. There is a point system where the student earned points for attending basketball games, says Read Winkelman, vice president of sales at CBORD. Each game attended earns the student points and the greater chance that they will receive […]