Students in the Douglas County School District will soon pay for their bus rides to and from school using a ZPASS, an ID card driven by radio frequency technology, according to a community newspaper article. The project, which is set to offset shortfalls resulting from the statewide recession, will see to the district wide installation […]

Law requires schools to make sure students can’t cheat By Autumn C. Giusti, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications A new federal law is forcing colleges and universities to implement security measures to make sure students enrolled in online classes are who they say they are, and three and a half-year-old software company outside of Dallas is […]

The CBORD Group announced that Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals will become a partner of the company’s Off-Campus Commerce Program, utilizing the transaction processing host called UGyrd. The new system will extend food programs for hospital’s approximate 27,000 students and employee badge holders, by allowing them to make purchases at participating merchants in the surrounding area.  […]

As part of an e-governance initiative, the Bangalore University of India will introduce smart cards for its students, according to a Deccan Herald report. The card will contain pertinent information about the student card holder to help in taking attendance, grading reports, degree certificates, hall tickets and curriculum relation information. The card will be available […]

Higher One has teamed with Langston University to help with the distribution of financial aid and other refund disbursements to students. Using Higher One’s OneDisburse Refund Management solution, the campus will disburse refunds to students’ OneAccount, a type of electronic checking account. Students can then transfer these funds to a bank of their choosing, or […]

Students living on campus at George Washington University can rest assured that they will be counted in the 2010 Census, as the university will provide their information to the Census Bureau for them, according to an independent student newspaper. The solution came from the D.C. West Census Office in an attempt to ensure 100% towards […]

Students at Columbus State University will soon be able to swipe their smart phones like their student ID cards with the use of a new app developed by university programmers and Google. The new app, which uses bar code technology, will enable students to check out books from the library, pay for on-campus dining and […]

The Summit School District in New Jersey is utilizing a combination of various technology to streamline accounting and speed up lunch lines, according to an Independent Press release. Elementary schools are utilizing biometric scanners, which read students’ fingertip to pay for meals. However, officials say at no time is a fingerprint image made or stored. […]

With a down economy and the cost of tuition soaring at four-year institutions, community colleges are getting the nod from more and more students. And these colleges are looking to do more through the student ID card, says Jay Summerall, president and founder of CardSmith. “In the past year or so we have seen more […]

Vanderbilt University’s Student Government unveiled a new taxi payment system that enables students to swipe their Commodore Cards to pay for cab rides. The new program arose from a partnership between the Vanderbilt Student Government, the Commodore Card office and Taxi USA. Approximately 200 taxis will be equipped with Commodore Card readers to allow students […]