< ? $key="9876"; ?> Innovative campus card leaders around the country are adding functionality to their programs. In this issue we examine some of these new initiatives. In North Carolina two schools are working to push the utilization of independent card databases in shared environments. At Clemson, a renewed off-campus program has been widely praised […]

Lowell Adkins, executive director of the National Association of Campus Card Users, has just one word for those attending–or thinking of attending–the organization’s annual meeting in March: Disney. But he’s not talking about the Magic Kingdom, or EPCOT, or MGM, although those certainly provide nice incentives for bringing the family. No, it’s Disney as in […]

Like the old Greyhound bus slogan, “Leave the driving to us,” many universities offering campus card payments at off-campus merchants are finding it more cost effective and efficient to let someone else handle that side of the business. Universities, after all, aren’t merchant acquirers or payment processing companies. And when they have a company like […]

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh has chosen U.S. Bank as its campus bank card partner. U.S. Bank will provide the banking functionality for UW-Oshkosh’ TitanCard, and will also operate two ATMs on campus. U.S. BANK PARTNERS WITH UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-OSHKOSH OSHKOSH, Wis. (Dec. 22, 2004) – University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (UW-Oshkosh) has chosen U.S. Bank as its campus […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. by Read Winkelman, National Sales Manager – Colleges and Universities Transaction Processing Systems, The CBORD Group, Inc. Three predictions for campus card system trends in 2005: 1) Web-based ordering will become […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. by Jon Gear, Director, BuckID, The Ohio State University In Ohio we will continue to be concerned over the bill being debated in the Ohio House and Senate (House Bill 162). […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. by Bob Huber, President, Robert Huber Associates Prediction #1 – Off-Campus Merchants In just five years (2010), 50% of all campus card systems will include at least several off-campus merchant applications; […]

< ? $key="1104"; ?> Across the country, campus card programs continue the migration off campus. The goals … increased student service and new revenue streams. In this issue, we examine two off campus developments as well a banking partnership under protest from students, and more. A merger off-campus: SA Cash and Quentrix become one Two […]

by Ted Sander, Food Service Director, University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, a CBORD OmniAccess user, is one of the largest universities in the United States, enrolling more than 35,000 students on two campuses in the metro Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Approximately 6,000 of these students live on campus. We have Residence Halls that are […]

Student Advantage, known for its campus student discount cards, has recently completed a merger of its SA Cash unit with Quentrix, opening more doors for its off-campus SA Cash card program by strengthening its access to universities serviced by major campus card player, Diebold. With the recent purchase of Quentrix, Student Advantage has acquired the […]