The University of Southern Mississippi is cracking down on students who attempt to gain free entry into sporting events with an invalid student ID, according to The Student Printz. At a recent baseball game the university checked and scanned student’s ID cards and found that one out of every ten weren’t valid. “We can easily […]

Tufts University in Boston is issuing new IDs to students that will bring more features and added technology, according to The Tufts Daily, an independent student newspaper at the university. The new IDs will institute separate student ID and JumboCash numbers for juniors and seniors who still have a single number for both purposes, bringing […]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is seeking information about contracts that colleges and universities in the state have with card issuers as part of an investigation into deceptive marketing tactics, according to AmericanBanker.com. The office sent letters to approximately 300 schools questioning any exclusive contracts that they may have with debit and credit card […]

The American Civil Liberties Union is questioning Contra Costa County, Calif. on their implementation of a microchip-tracking program in their preschool centers, according to the California Watch. Contra Costa’s tracking initiative called Child Location, Observation and Utilization Data System, or CLOUDS for short, assigns students a shirt that has a small locator chip sewn into […]

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, provider of security solutions and manufacturer of Schlage contactless smart credentials and readers, have entered into a partnership with ScreenCheck International which will let customers design, encode, print and manage its card population through ScreenCheck’s BadgeMaker Online software. This new partnership will grant ScreenCheck, developer of smart card software solutions, access […]

Grove City College, Pa, and PNC Bank have formed a relationship to give personal banking products and services to more than 2,900 students, faculty and staff. As of part of the arrangement, students, faculty and staff will have the option to link their Grove City College photo ID card to a PNC account, adding ATM […]

Indianapolis-based Harrison College has become the latest higher education institution to sign up with financial services provider Higher One, New Haven, Conn., to distribute refunds to its students. Higher One will use its OneDisburse Refund Management system to provide the refunds. A file including student names and the total amount of each refund will be […]

Loyola University, Chicago, is offering more buying power for its students through the campus card program, allowing them for the first time to take the card off-campus at local dining establishments. The program will start small, focusing on a handful of restaurants. “We prepared documents and contract agreements that…merchants will have to sign, and they’re […]

The Palos Heights School District 128 in Chicago is using GPS technology to track its students allowing the district to keep up with the student–when he or she first entered the school bus and when the student exited the district’s care. The contactless luggage type tag affixed to the student’s book bag is scanned as […]

Safe Card ID, an online retailer of security card printing systems and identity kits, is expanding its ID card software and printer line. The Evolis Printer joins Zebra printers to help Safe Card’s customers meet their in-house ID printing needs. Safe Card ID’s newest line of business security enhancement products is not limited to badge […]