Batavia High School is purchasing a security system that will require authorized card access. While no previous incidents occurred due to poor security, upgrades are being made merely to prevent any from ever occurring. The campus plans to issue faculty and students new ID cards that gives them a contactless form of entry to the […]

The Yale Daily News reported that in order to improve workplace safety and campus security the University will no longer issue stickers to visually check whether cards are still active. Following the winter break, students will no longer receive ID stickers as they did in the past. Instead security guards and other staff must now […]

The top stories from the campus card market in 2009 included a controversial patent on web revalue, a series of pieces on campus card banking programs, and a nationwide assortment of innovative card programs from Boston to Montana. The CR80News editorial team and the rest of the AVISIAN Publishing staff are working hard to bring […]

By Read Winkelman, vice president of sales, The CBORD Group Inc. As campus cards become increasingly ingrained in campus life, as we have seen over the last several decades, their reach will continue to extend beyond traditional four-year institutions. Facing record enrollments, community colleges are stretching limited resources to serve larger constituencies and prepare for […]

Penn State University computers were attacked, possibly by so-called cyber criminals, several days before Christmas, putting Social Security numbers of some 30,000 people at risk. A spokesperson said the school is trying to determine whose Social Security numbers were exposed and would not say whether they belonged to faculty, staff, alumni or others. “The Social […]

By Donald Smith, director of client marketing, Higher One In the last 12 months, campuses have become more automated and more schools throughout the country are adopting initiatives that provide increased service to students. At Higher One, we are working with business officers who realize that offering students easier access to financial services through more […]

Campus administrators and faculty are not immune to the email plague of phishing. That became evident at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) this week when a physician was fooled into revealing a username and password to hackers. An official looking email made to look like it was sent by […]

Korean universities are using campus IDs to make sure students don’t skip classes, according to a news report in the Chosen Ilbo. The IDs, which have been used to pay for meal and other functions, are also being used to swipe students into class. Kyunghee University introduced its U-Class System in 2006. Students insert their […]

By Robert C. Huber, Campus Card Industry Business Consultant Prediction #1–Contactless Becomes Preferred Campus Card Technology After magnetic stripes have dominated campus card systems for 40 years, contactless smart chip technology–high frequency 13.56 MHz–rapidly ascends as the preferred identity and reader technology due to its high-data security, read/write storage capability, non-mechanical reader design, expansion scalability, […]

Digital Identification Solutions AG announced that a program of ID personalization products the company has ever launched will soon have shipping approval. The new EDIsecure CMS 4.0, as well as the IDExpert SmartACT 1.2 Card Management Software already have full shipping approval, the new Business Line and Professional Line range of retransfer personalization solutions will […]