While more colleges are enabling their student ID cards to be used off campus, the University of Central Florida in Orlando is canceling its program beginning next May. The reason: students have enough options on campus that an off-campus program isn’t needed, says a university spokesperson. As expected, many of the 27 vendors, including restaurants […]

A swipe of their student ID card is all graduate students at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., will need to ride the bus to school for free. The service, which has been available to Vandy’s employees for four years, was extended to these 5,500 students because most of them live off campus which means a daily […]

Off-Campus Advantage, a subsidiary of The CBORD Group, Ithaca, N.Y. and a provider of off-campus payment services for universities and colleges, has signed up three more schools in Mississippi, New York and Alabama to handle their off-campus payment programs. The CBORD Group’s off-campus payment services are a program that offers back-end management of transactions or […]

Heartland Payment Systems, a provider of credit/debit/prepaid card processing, payroll, check management and payments services, has teamed with Identification Systems Group, a nationwide network of suppliers of identification and card issuing products and services. The new link will help expand Heartland’s campus card programs to more colleges and universities. ISG will begin to offer its […]

Stored value has been added to Kansas University’s Beak ‘EM Bucks Card for use both on and off-campus. In addition, students can earn reward points. Like most stored value accounts, students can use the card on campus for various services and at several off-campus restaurants, a pharmacy and for pizza delivery. Students must sign up […]

Universities have a lot to gain with their banking partnerships. Besides adding to the bottom line, financial institutions can help colleges improve their campus ID programs. Banks also benefit by establishing contact with customers when they’re young, which can potentially lead to a lengthy banking relationship down the road. But while the schools and banks […]

The CBORD Group has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program for a third consecutive year by demonstrating expertise with Microsoft technologies in data management, independent software vendor/software, mobility, networking infrastructure and service oriented architecture and business processes. “CBORD’s designation, for a third consecutive year, as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner demonstrates […]

The identification industry had a wakeup call in 2005 when parents protested the use of RFID tags in student ID badges at Brittan Elementary School in Sutter, Calif. RFID tags were used to take attendance at the school when the children walked in the door. The plan was to eventually place scanners around the school […]

Runge & Company, a consulting firm specializing in card issuance systems, says it was instrumental in helping First National Bank and Colorado State University launch the first Visa-branded, unembossed campus card that features Visa debit and ATM functionality, a contactless smart chip for building security, and Visa-approved instant issuance. The university’s new RamCard Plus program […]

Colorado State University students and faculty can now receive an instantly-issued campus ID and Visa debit card rolled into one, thanks to a partnership between Dynamic Card Solutions, a developer of instant issuance solutions for banks, credit unions and retailers, First National Bank and Runge & Co., a consulting firm specializing in card issuance systems. […]