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...
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...
Designing, creating and getting approval for a functional card office facility By Andy Williams Contributing Editor Space is usually a premium at most colleges and universities. So when Georgia Tech underwent an expansion of its card office a couple years...
“Software as a service” model takes off By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Colleges and universities aren’t that different from corporations. Educational institutions are under the same pressure to keep costs down, and anything that can be done to help institutions...
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...
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...
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,”...
Higher One is working with Intuit, maker of financial software page Quicken, to build “unique solutions to help students” with financial education. Beginning in February, students will be able to access Quicken Online to use in tandem with their Higher...
Blackboard is acquiring a mass messaging and notification company for $182 million. Privately-held NTI Group, provides these services for educational and government organizations via voice, email, SMS, and other text-receiving devices. The acquisition positions Blackboard to help institutions connect with...
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Great inverview on the Public Key Open Credential (PKOC) standard with ELATEC's Jason Ouellette, Chairman of the Board for the @PSIAlliance.
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