Purdue University and Amazon have partnered to establish a brick-and-mortar storefront where students can ship their Amazon purchases for free. The store has been in operation since its soft opening earlier in the semester, and is saving students money while...

Heartland Campus Solutions recently hosted its 2014 OneCard User Group Conference in Clearwater, FL to honor Heartland clients who displayed card system excellence and innovation. In addition to the Annual Client Awards ceremony, which recognizes individuals and campuses that have...

Students attending the University of South Florida’s St. Petersburg campus can now ride Pinellas County buses for free when they show drivers their student ID. The feeder campus of more than 6,000 students and faculty instituted the new transit program...

A new initiative at Marquette University is giving every freshman and sophomore student living in a university residence hall a reusable takeout container to be used at the university’s dining halls. The container is called an OZZI and is a...

Beloit College has once again compiled a list of items that best encapsulates the incoming freshmen class of 2018. The list is entertaining, puzzling and at time, downright frightening. Nonetheless, it provides some insight into the abyss that is the...

Bitcoin ATMs could be installed at Canada’s Simon Fraser University as early as this fall, provided university officials approve a pilot project that is under consideration. Under the proposed initiative, students would be able to use the digital currency to...

Blackboard acquired rival campus card vendor and cloud-system provider, CardSmith. The acquisition broadens Blackboard’s system deployment capabilities adding an established software-as-a-service option to its traditional on-premise offering. In its ten-year existence, CardSmith built a multi-tenant cloud technology alternative to hosted...

CR80News learned that NuVision’s President, Bill Adoff, and Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Brian Adoff, are no longer with the company. Bill joined the company back in 2001 and has held various roles related to operational management and product...

The CBORD Group has added the new Odyssey Direct solution to its portfolio. A hosted campus card system that offers full services without the IT complexity or workload, Odyssey Direct addresses a growing need for universities to focus more IT...