For students at the University of California, Santa Barbara tickets to the university's recent Extravaganza music festival were, quite literally, a hot-ticket item. So much so that some students were renting out or selling their student IDs -- on which...
Debit and credit cards, as well their mobile equivalents, are giving campus cards a run for their money at vending machines on many campuses across the country. Although providers of traditional closed-loop campus card systems may be losing their once...
Determining where discretionary funds can be used is a dilemma that's seemingly as old as meal plans themselves. The questions of whether these funds can be used beyond the confines of campus is often down to university dining officials, food...
Universities are the perfect environments to test new methods for old processes, and there's perhaps not abetter example of this in practice than the campus mailroom where inefficiencies, outdated technology and spatial waste are proving to be more of a...
Going to class is important, and in many ways, it's the key to academic success. It comes as little surprise, then, that campuses are implementing attendance policies – and accompany those policies with an automated attendance systems – to open...
This free on-demand webinar explores why higher education is starting to reconsider attendance tracking due to reporting requirements and positive impacts on student engagement. Campus transaction system vendor, Blackboard Transact, demos its new automated attendance system, which leverages existing student...
Houston's Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District can now notify parents when their students arrive and depart on buses, as well as process school cafeteria lines more quickly and efficiently with the implementation of a new, district-wide RFID card system.
Killeen, Texas' Central Texas College is using Biometric Signature ID’s biometric identification software, BioSig-ID, to verify some 50,000 students for online courses and boost the overall security of online logins.
The Monmouth University basketball team has upped its game recently, which is great new for Hawks fans and members of the university community. But with the recent success comes an increased interest in game attendance, leading Monmouth to rethink its...
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Feb. 1 webinar explores how mobile ordering enhanced campus life, increased sales at UVA and Central Washington @Grubhub @CBORD
