Purchase jumpstarts payment processor’s entry into the college and university market By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor The recently announced purchase of campus card supplier General Meters Corp. (GMC) by payments processors, Heartland Payment Systems, has likely delivered the resources the small company needed to stay competitive. Heartland’s campus card appetite was first whetted with its […]

More than 300 campus card and security personnel are gathering in Phoenix for BbWorld Commerce ‘08, a Blackboard-sponsored event for users of its Commerce Suite. Featuring record exhibitor participation, theme for this year’s conference, which began March 9 and will run through March 12, is “Coming Together.” WASHINGTON–Blackboard Inc., a leading provider of enterprise technology […]

Leading campus card provider The CBORD Group has been purchased for $367 million by Roper Industries, a company that provides engineered products and solutions for niche markets, including water, energy, radio frequency and research/medical applications. “As part of Roper we will have the financial and strategic resources necessary to pursue a variety of new initiatives,” […]

CBORD’s Off-Campus Advantage, which expands the functionality of the university-issued ID card by enabling local merchants to accept it as a form of payment, has added six more colleges to its roster, including State University of New York and University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Off-campus programs increase student satisfaction and purchasing power at universities nationwide Ithaca, […]

Looking for a one-stop campus card solution, CardSmith has chosen Ingersoll Rand as its preferred access control provider, enabling the campus card provider to offer Schlage locking systems to its college clients. According to CardSmith, campuses can now create any combination of offline, online and/or wireless access control systems. CARMEL, IND.– Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies […]

Niles P. Dally, Vice President Sales, NuVision Networks Corp So much of what any of us say about what will happen in the future is based on what we know now; however technology, business relationships, and consumer needs are constantly changing. Who would have foreseen this time last year the tragedy at Virginia Tech and […]

A series of free seminars covering card-related topics including off-campus merchant rollouts, electronic financial aid delivery, and credit card tuition payment acceptance will take place in cities across the country. The newly announced series titled, “the future of campus payments,” is being offered by Heartland Payment Systems, recent buyer of General Meters and provider of […]

Ron Farmer, Executive Director, Heartland Payment Systems Micropayments Division The campus card will truly become a student-centric tool as the places students want to go and the form factors they want to use become the norm. Students conduct transactions on and off campus, and card programs are recognizing this fact. Students also live by their […]

Taran Lent, Vice President, Product Development, CardSmith I believe this year’s developments will play a major role in determining the future direction and general health of the campus card industry. It has reached a maturation point of sorts, with most major colleges and universities having now implemented a campus card program in one form or […]

Colleges have other options for cell phone alerts, of course. They could go off campus and hire a company specializing in text messaging. That’s what Rave Wireless and Mobile Campus are offering to universities. Rave offers what its COO, Raju Rishi, calls “an alert solution, which basically gives the university the ability to get emergency […]