Providence College students will soon be able to use their PC Cash, stored on their student IDs, at local participating vendors, say The Cowl, the school’s student-run newspaper. Currently, CVS, Golden Crust, and Frankly’s Pizza have all signed contracts with Blackboard, who was contracted by the campus to implement the new payment system. The campus’ […]

The Australian government announced plans for a national student ID to track progress across schools or states, says The Sydney Morning Herald. The new system would enable student course performance to be monitored throughout the duration of their school life, as they move from school to school. The number would be attached to the government’s […]

Keene State College in New Hampshire is considering a new student ID card system that would enable students to load money on their campus cards for buying textbooks, paying for laundry and gaining access to campus facilities, reports The Equinox, the college’s student newspaper. While there are no comments on who the college will go […]

CardKing unveiled its iPhone App, now available on the iTunes Store. The free App turns any iPhone camera into a portable bar code scanner, capturing student ID and discount bar codes into the phone for retrieval later. Students can instantly display bar codes associated with student discount programs and campus cards to enable merchants to […]

The University of Missouri has improved access control with a combination of security software and equipment installations at its 24 on-campus residential life buildings with the aid of Matrix Systems. Using Matrix System’s Frontier equipped computer workstation, the campus can lock-down exterior doors and eliminate outside threats with only a few mouse clicks. There is […]

College students are becoming an attractive target for identity thieves, reports The Review Online. The reasons being that the majority of enrolling college students are naive and feel they are at a low risk of being targeted and do not take the proper precautions in protecting their identity. Right out of high school, students are […]

Students and faculty at American University are in the process of piloting student ID cards that are compatible with the Washington DC’s Metro SmarTrip technology, reports the GW Hatchet. At the beginning of the year, twenty student IDs were produced that integrate with SmarTrip, a tap-and-enter technology that allows riders to enter Metro stations. The […]

Pennsylvania’s Slippery Rock University announced a five-year agreement with PNC Bank, with an emphasis on money management and financial education for its more than 9,500 students, faculty and staff. The agreement will include PNC financial literacy workshops for students and employees with topics including basic banking, credit management, savings and investing, identity protection and home […]

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies revealed that its Schlage wireless panel interface module now integrates to Mercury Security access control panels via RS485. With a new protocol, a single Mercury access panel can manage up to 64 Schlage wireless devices including the modular designed AD-Series, which lets users change credential technologies or networking capabilities without removing […]

Biometric Signature ID’s CEO, Jeff Maynard, will be a featured speaker at the 2010 eLearning conference in Ft. Worth, Texas. Maynard will speak on Feb. 22 and cover biometric signatures for student ID identity authentication, as well as the results from a pilot with University of Maryland University College. Maynard will share the results from […]