User education, card material important to success Zack Martin, editor, Avisian Publications It may seem easy: tap the card against the reader and wait for the door to unlock. That’s the basic premise behind contactless smart cards for physical access...
Following the controversial report from U.S. PIRG, Congress investigates both campus card banking partnerships and financial aid dispersal. Is the future of these products in doubt? Jill Jaracz, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications As campuses have embraced electronic distribution of financial...
Access begins, more apps to follow Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications A little more than six-years ago, Doug Olson, Tulane’s director of card services, found his office flooded under two feet of water. That led to some “belt tightening,”...
Not all institutions are in the market for the latest technology when it comes to their campus cards. Many choose not to upgrade to an unknown entity citing that the magnetic stripe card has met their needs for 15 years,...
Campus among first to use U.S. Bank’s new nationwide service When you’re pitching your banking partnership program to a college and you don’t have a brick and mortar facility any closer than one state away from the university, it helps...
New report enables programs to compare against similar institutions It all started when one university wanted to compare the performance of its campus card office to others. An apples and oranges problem emerged. Just because another school is nearby or...
Students arriving at Princeton University this fall are finding more security in their residence halls. For the first time, their contactless campus ID card will be used to gain access to individual rooms. The contactless readers on the front of...
Villanova, University of San Francisco expanding trials in fall Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications Near field communication is going to college and finding the campus to be an ideal testing ground full of students hungry for the newest technology....
Tom Bell offers expertise to campus card directors Paraphrasing a famous comedian, Tom Bell says that campus card programs ‘get no respect.’ This is despite the fact that if a school’s card program were suddenly to go away, he believes...
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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.
Attn: friends in the biometrics space. Nominations close Friday for the annual Women in Biometrics Awards. Take five minutes to recognize a colleague or even yourself. http://WomenInBiometrics.com
