The CBORD Group Inc. announced that Karen Sammon has joined its executive team as the senior vice president of operations. Sammon will be responsible for operations supporting CBORD’s card systems, housing systems, food and nutrition management solutions and integrated security product lines. She will also oversee CBORD’s procurement, installation, customer support and client relations teams. […]

Cornerstone University, located in Grand Rapids, Mich. has signed an agreement with PNC Bank to offer banking services to more than 3,200 students, faculty and staff at the university. Starting in 2011, students at CU will have the option to link their student ID card to PNC account – adding ATM and purchasing functionality to […]

Newly installed card readers at Texas Christian University will ensure campus libraries remain exclusive to students, according to a campus news report. With the new readers installed, students entering will now have to swipe their TCU student ID to get in the front door, then again at the turn-styles in the entryway. The new card […]

Digital Identification Solutions AG has unveiled the EDIsecure DCP 360+, a newly designed direct card printer based on the EDIsecure DCP 360i platform, at the ASIS 2010 trade fair in Dallas. The new printer is targeted for flexible card personalization and connects easily with the extended lamination options EDIsecure ILM and ILM-DS. The fast full-color […]

NuVision Networks has been working with colleges and universities on a number of new applications for campus cards which add benefits to students and schools, says Brian Adoff, national sales manager at the company. Integrating a schools’ ERP into the campus card system can make it easier to give or deny physical access to students […]

Greenfingers Global School, a co-educational English medium school in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, has installed RFID technology on school grounds to record attendance and monitor student whereabouts, according to a New Delhi Television report. The school’s 850 students will wear RFID-embedded ID cards, which are captured by installed RFID readers and antenna. Once transmitted to the […]

Florida State College at Jacksonville and CardSmith announced the launch of the new Essential Card program for the campus community. The Essential Card program, FSCJ’s student ID, is powered by CardSmith’s SaaS transaction processing system and card program management solution. Essential Card’s initial objectives are photo identification, library circulation services, implement student pay for printing […]

School districts in Texas have begun monitoring students on campus by issuing identification badges equipped with RFID technology, according to the Houston Chronicle. The Spring school district in Houston has distributed the RFID-enabled badges to about 13,500 of its 36,000 students since December 2008. About 30 miles south, the Santa Fe school district began using […]

Ohio State University officials are advising students and faculty to keep their private information safe, following numerous attempted security breaches, reports a campus news source. IT director for the university, Charles Morrow-Jones, stated that OSU has been tracking data breaches, which average about 10 per year. He added that the majority of these events are […]

PNC Bank has signed a five-year deal with the University of Cincinnati to upgrade its campus card program, according to a local news report. The new Bearcat Card, the university’s official campus ID, will function much like a debit card linked to either new or existing PNC bank accounts to allow students to make purchases […]