An upgraded ID and verification process and “Ozzie Bucks,” a pre-paid flexible spending account, are among the new services that will be rolled out to students, faculty and staff at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville when it kicks off its new ID card program this fall. Known as the Osprey 1card and developed […]

Attempting to keep its students notified in cases of emergencies or threats to their safety, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Mo. has launched its “Bearcat Alert,” a text messaging system designed to get the word out quickly. While Bearcat Alert is open to those with a Northwest account, students still must sign up for the […]

Loyola College, a 3,500 student strong institution in Maryland, wanted off-campus benefits for its students, the same that two nearby schools–-Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College-–were offering. It had even become an issue during the college’s 2007 student body presidential race. But as with any off-campus program, particularly one enabling students to dine at nearby […]

Student ID cards today mean more than meal tickets or the ability to buy books on campus. They mean wireless hotdog carts. That’s just one of the examples highlighted by CreditCards.com in its report on the new breed of student ID cards. The “cashless campus” at many universities now allows students to gain access to […]

Working closely with local merchants and students, Off-Campus Advantage and Millersville University in Pennsylvania have launched the school’s first off-campus payment program, Marauder Gold. Students even got to design signs to be placed in participating merchants’ establishments. “Opening the on-campus discretionary account to off-campus merchants is a win for the students, the local merchants and […]

In this time of budget cutbacks, donations mean a lot to a college’s bottom line. That’s the premise behind Heartland Payment Systems’ Give Something Back Network that can be tied to a student’s campus card and that’s the reason Heartland was presented the Best in Payments Editor’s Choice award recently by Cards and Payments Magazine. […]

Towson University in Maryland has joined the higher education institutions expanding their use of student ID cards off-campus. More importantly, the declining balance account on the student’s OneCard will not expose its users to overdraft fees or credit card debt, the university emphasizes. Retail Points, Towson’s existing discretionary account, could already be used on campus […]

Have off-campus programs become a virtual necessity for card programs? By Andy Williams Contributing Editor The decision to allow off-campus merchants, mainly restaurants and bookstores, to access students’ prepaid accounts used to be an easy one to answer: no way. But that attitude among colleges has been changing as more have found that on-campus income […]

In the past nine months, 12 more schools, including community colleges, have chosen campus card provider Blackboard to help them manage their on-campus commerce and security needs. Most have opted for the company’s full Commerce Suite that includes building access, video surveillance, cashless payments on- and off-campus, laundry services and parking. WASHINGTON–Blackboard Inc., a provider […]

CBORD subsidiary Off-Campus Advantage has added three more schools to its off-campus payment program that allows students to use their campus ID cards to utilize services of local merchants. Each of the schools were already using CBORD’s Odyssey PCS campus card solution. Smaller Colleges outsource off-campus card payment services to maximize operations Ithaca, New York […]