If you want to know just how important your campus card system is to your university, shut it down for one day. After you’ve quelled the riots and handled the nasty phone calls from students, faculty and staff, who want...
The tale of Washington State University banking partnership and ID card By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications When Washington State University in Pullman went looking for a banking partner a couple years ago, administrators had some strong ideas of...
Recycling can provide a selling point for cards, but reclaimed plastic often comes in less-than-pure shades of white that can drive away card-industry decision makers. “The biggest concern among card manufacturers is being able to offer a consistent color,” says...
Sustainable options are still a ways off By Ed McKinley, Contributing Editor, Avisian Publications Polyvinyl chloride–or PVC for short–dominates the nation’s plastic-card market despite efforts to find more ecologically friendly materials. Cards made of 100% PVC account for perhaps 90%...
By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications From managing the comings and goings at an event like the Academy Awards to making sure high school students are where they’re supposed to be, ID management systems have come a long way...
Making social media work for your campus card program By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications If you aren’t using Facebook, YouTube, MySpace or some of the other so-called social networking sites, you may be missing out on a prime...
Laser engraving is a technology that burns data into an ID card or data page in a passport. It enables standard text and images to be added as well as special security features such as microtext, tactile data, perforated images...
While usage is light, hand scanners are starting to make their presence felt on some college campuses By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications Biometrics aren’t exactly taking the college world by storm but it is gaining traction in some...
Community colleges haven’t always been considered ideal candidates for campus banking services. That’s changing. Partnerships between banks and the two-year schools through their student ID cards, are out there and brick and mortar facilities are showing up on campus as...
The only publication dedicated to the use of campus cards, mobile credentials, identity and security technology in the education market. CampusIDNews – formerly CR80News – has served more than 6,500 subscribers for more than two decades.
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
