A group of approximately 1,200 students at the North Arizona University are petitioning to stop the campus’ plan to install proximity card scanners in several classrooms, according to a campus news source. The scanners would automate taking students’ attendance, which at the teacher’s discretion may affect the outcome of their grades. If a student fails […]

HID Global announced two new products to be added to its multiCLASS product line, as the company looks to provide flexible and secure migration from the legacy mag stripe and 125 kHz technologies to higher security 13.56 MHz smart cards. The new additions to the multiCLASS family include two keypad models – the RMK40, which […]

Pioneering FSUCard embarks on next chapter selecting new bank and electronic financial aid delivery partner Florida State University and its FSUCard program are credited with helping to pioneer campus card banking partnerships. The university inked its first deal twenty-years ago and have been evolving the ID-bank relationship ever since. This spring the campus is going […]

CBORD was recently chosen by George Washington University to replace its existing campus card system. The university elected to go with the CS Gold campus card solution from CBORD to manage card-based purchasing, privileges, access control, vending and more for more than 20,000 students. They will be utilizing iCLASS secure contactless cards and readers for […]

The Maharashtra state government has announced plans to issue smart cards to university graduates to combat the proliferation of counterfeit degrees, according to dnaindia.com. Since February of this year, 1,134 cases of counterfeit degrees have come to light in the state, says higher and technical education minister Rajesh Tope. The smart cards will contain data […]

Turton School in Bromley Cross, UK are trying out a new cashless payment system in its dinner hall that allow students to pay for their meals by simply pressing their finger to a biometric pad, according to a Bolton news report. The system hopes to removes problems associated with students who lose or have their […]

Heartland Payment Systems revealed its newest campus solution, an electronic financial aid distribution platform that utilizes a single financial account for easy integration with campus card systems. The Acceluraid (accelerate-your-aid) program enables students fast and easy access to financial aid refunds through a single account that can be linked to a prepaid campus ID card […]

In Hyderabad, a city in Andreh Pradesh (AP), India, the State Department of Higher Education is moving to roll-out a biometric attendance system for its professional and non-professional college students starting next academic year, according to a PTI News article. The hope from school and government officials is that the new system will help drive […]

The University of Denver’s hotel, restaurant and tourism school is launching NFC mobile payment at the campus’ student run coffee shop, according to americanbanker.com. Students and faculty will be able to use their mobile phones to make point-of-sale purchases, as well as add money to their accounts and check balances and transaction histories. Mocapay is […]

With medical officials predicting that the H1N1 flu would hit hard as the flu and cold season came around last winter, college campuses struggled to prepare their students. When the flu strain hit in the spring 2009 some campuses were forces to quarantine students. At the 35,000 student University of Alberta in Canada administrators were […]