Students at Cambrian College will want to make sure they have their student ID when entering the campus fitness center, or they may as well get a paid gym membership off-campus. In January, the campus began enforcing policies which hits students with a fee for not having their student ID when entering the campus gym, […]

Vayama.com, an online provider of discounted airfares, announced their latest offering to students, which doesn’t require the purchase of a proprietary student identity card to gain access to discounted airfares. All Vayama discounted airfares are on electronic tickets. Travelers present their student ID from their learning institution to board the plane and there is no […]

As part of a $2 million project that started in May 2009, the Florida State University’s main campus library has installed entry and exit turnstiles to monitor student traffic, says fsunews.com. At the campus’ Strozier library, students are now required to swipe in and swipe out, so that staff can know who is in the […]

The University of Minnesota Police are investigating an alleged scam where a group of individuals fraudulently registered as students to get a campus U Card, which allowed them to make large credit-like purchases, according to a local newspaper. The main suspect allegedly recruited several individuals to register for the same class at the University’s College […]

A local business is now offering an off campus meal plan for San Diego students, which provides them with a refillable debit card that can be used at 27 participating restaurants throughout the city, according The Daily Aztec. Appropriately named San Diego Student Dollars, the program provides students with debit cards which enables students and […]

A Washington State University student has been charged with identity theft after using another student’s CougarCard to seek medical help. The student and the victim were former friends, who had a falling out before the crime took place. When campus authorities approached the student she stated that she had permission from her friend to use […]

Police at Lehigh University campus have apprehended the alleged culprit responsible for a four-month reign of burglaries resulting in $30,000 in theft, and did so with the aid of swipe card records, according to a lehighvalleylive.com article. The burglaries occurred in the Campus Square apartments and the surrounding area, where authorities say that a campus […]

The Royal Agriculture College in the UK has selected SALTO Systems and its XS4 smart card based system to replace its key lock doors. The upgrade is currently in the pilot phase, with two main entrance ways already fitted with SALTO WRM9000 series wall readers. Twenty bedrooms and four back of house office doors have […]

The American University in Dubai has implemented Amricon’s RFID technology into a new ‘smart certificate,’ issued to all graduating students. Recommended by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, these smart certificates not only standardize the format of the data collected from the universities in the United Arab Emirates, but also protect and secure […]

Valdosta State University, along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are still looking into an incident in which someone gained unauthorized access to a campus server, according to a Campus Technology article. The incident, which was originally reported back in December 2009, was said to have affected up to 170,000 people. The server held both […]