One of the newer trends to emerge in campus dining has been the use of reusable takeout containers in dining halls to eliminate unnecessary waste tied to student use of plastic, paper or styrofoam to-go boxes. Now, in an effort...
No matter how you cut it, dining facilities can be wasteful operations with piles of uneaten or neglected food and scores of single-use takeout containers used by on-the-go students. But with the OZZI reusable container system campuses have found a...
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...
Following on the heels of its acquisition of Diebold’s card system business earlier this year, CBORD has acquired the merchant discount membership business from Student Advantage. Included in the purchase are the existing member base, more than 20,000 pre-arranged participating...
Student Advantage has been offering discount programs to college students for 11 years. But now, the company is taking the next logical step by merging the offering with a college’s existing campus card program. The first test, an incredibly successful...
Student Advantage, a company offering student discount programs at universities across the U.S., has a new deal for college students in the Boston area. Student Advantage members can now receive a $10 to $20 discount on tickets to the Boston...
The Annual Conference of the National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU) was a great event and a great opportunity to spot trends and changes in the campus card industry. In the following paragraphs, a number of these developments and...
The most heated battle in the contactless technology market place has not been between different standards but between competing implementations within a single standard. The two unique implementations of the ISO 14443 standard, Type A and Type B, have fought...
Student Advantage has sold its SA Cash division to Blackboard for 4.5 million dollars. Reactions are mixed on what this really means to the campus card market but CR80News has talked with the CEOs of both companies and other key...
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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
Feb. 1 webinar explores how mobile ordering enhanced campus life, increased sales at UVA and Central Washington @Grubhub @CBORD