Penn State's University Park and Altoona campuses are participating in a laundry pilot that sends notifications when machines are ready to be unloaded. Dubbed WashAlert, the system is designed to help reduce both the overall time spent in the laundry...
For students at the University of Pennsylvania, meal plan usage has decreased in recent years. So the university's business services have implemented a 5% discount on dining dollar usage at certain campus dining locations in an effort to incentivize the...
Campus card system provider, CBORD, has partnered with FreedomPay to provide higher education and other verticals with increased payment data security. The partnership will provide CBORD with access to the FreedomPay Commerce Platform, enabling CBORD customers to deploy a PCI-validated,...
Higher One Holdings, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the company to an affiliate of Blackboard for $5.15 in cash per share. The all-cash sale price represents a 37.3% premium over the closing price of the Higher...
ACI, provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, and Ohio's Cedarville University have partnered to facilitate the university's tuition payments across multiple channels. The partnership will leverage ACI’s UP Bill Payment Solution that integrates into Colleague by Ellucian, to...
Payment solution provider, Apriva, completed EMV certification for a new unattended card reader that can accept both campus card payments as well as EMV chip-enabled bankcards. The BV1000 card reader, developed by Globalcom Engineering, connects through the Apriva Gateway to...
Blackboard has acquired point-of-sale manufacturer Sequoia Retail Systems, a provider of comprehensive POS solutions for educational institutions. The move will bring new dining, retail and bookstore POS and inventory/operations management capabilities to Blackboard Transact, the education technology company’s campus ID,...
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...
A primary obstacle for accepting the campus card for payment transactions has been an expensive buy in for point-of-sale payment technology. Now, however, some universities are recognizing the need to accept payments at places other than a traditional point of...
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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.
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