University of Wisconsin – Stout Last year, University of Wisconsin – Stout selected Higher One to provide banking services on its student ID card. The institution was using Blackboard for its campus card program and Datacard’s ID Works for card issuance and so the new offering needed to coexist with these systems. Further, Joe Krier, […]

When asked why the campus elected to begin the process to remove the social security number (SSN) from the University of Oregon’s campus cards, Senior Analyst and Project Manager Jim Bohle reports emphatically, “Privacy protection.” But as the campus has found, printing of the SSN on the ID card is only one in a long […]

NORTH CANTON, Ohio – Diebold, Incorporated announced the introduction of CS Gold™ 4.0, the newest version of its campus card solution at a User’s Group meeting hosted by Kent State University last week. CS Gold 4.0 enables campus administrators to deploy a single robust card system that offers students, faculty and staff cutting-edge functionality and […]

The annual conference of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS) will be held November 2-5 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO. The conference has a wealth of educational seminars focused on campus ID card technology and the exhibit hall will showcase products from the industry’s leading vendors. According to Abby Sipe, NACAS […]

CONTRIBUTED BY BILL REDWINE AUXILIARY SERVICE DIRECTOR MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY ID cards, meal plans, declining balance accounts, convenience copiers, lab printing, laundry services, vending machines and banking. How do we combine all of these varied services into one convenient and efficient card system? Our answer, the EagleCard. In the early Fall of 2000, Morehead State […]

Menomonie, WI– September 13, 2002- The University of Wisconsin – Stout has chosen Higher One to provide its “OneAccount” banking solution to all students, faculty, and staff. Higher One is a financial services firm focused exclusively on creating customized solutions for the higher education market. Starting this Spring, the “OneAccount” will be automatically offered as […]

Stonehill College, a competitive Catholic institution located just south of Boston, serves 2,100 undergraduate students. More than 85% of these students reside in campus housing and nearly all participate in the campus meal plan. This makes food service a “big business” on the campus. In 1995 administrators made the decision to make the dining card […]

July 19, 2002, Washington, DC – Higher One, a leading provider of customized private label and one card banking solutions to higher education institutions, and Blackboard Inc., the leading software infrastructure company for e-Education, have signed a partnership agreement that will make the companies’ systems interoperable through Blackboard’s Building Blocks Program. Under the agreement, the […]

Bill Norwood resigns as company Vice Chairman On Friday, March 8 CyberMark distributed a press release announcing a corporate restructuring that included the resignation of Bill Norwood, longtime card industry veteran and CyberMark Vice Chairman. CyberMark established itself as the campus market’s premiere provider of smart card systems and is responsible for the vast majority […]

In the Fall of 1997, the University of Houston began issuing the Cougar 1 Card to 38,000 students, faculty, and staff. The institution saw a need to better control access to facilities and ease payments on the campus and a decision had been made to eliminate the overlap that occurred with three separate departments issuing […]