Gonzaga University trials phone-based payments on campus and around town By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor College students can be ideal test subjects for new technology, particularly if it’s “cool.” While programs testing near field communication are cropping up worldwide, until...
By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor On-campus student safety is an even greater priority for many colleges and universities today. Blackboard, one of the largest campus ID systems providers, has noticed this trend and rolled out two new programs with student...
Have off-campus programs become a virtual necessity for card programs? By Andy Williams Contributing Editor The decision to allow off-campus merchants, mainly restaurants and bookstores, to access students’ prepaid accounts used to be an easy one to answer: no way....
Purchase jumpstarts payment processor’s entry into the college and university market By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor The recently announced purchase of campus card supplier General Meters Corp. (GMC) by payments processors, Heartland Payment Systems, has likely delivered the resources the...
“Software as a service” model takes off By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Colleges and universities aren’t that different from corporations. Educational institutions are under the same pressure to keep costs down, and anything that can be done to help institutions...
A series of free seminars covering card-related topics including off-campus merchant rollouts, electronic financial aid delivery, and credit card tuition payment acceptance will take place in cities across the country. The newly announced series titled, “the future of campus payments,”...
Blackboard is acquiring a mass messaging and notification company for $182 million. Privately-held NTI Group, provides these services for educational and government organizations via voice, email, SMS, and other text-receiving devices. The acquisition positions Blackboard to help institutions connect with...
Colleges have other options for cell phone alerts, of course. They could go off campus and hire a company specializing in text messaging. That’s what Rave Wireless and Mobile Campus are offering to universities. Rave offers what its COO, Raju...
It was just announced that one of the longest standing, leading campus card providers – General Meters Corp. – has been sold to Heartland Payment Systems, a leading merchant payment processor. Heartland is a newcomer to the campus card world...
By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Providing campuses with the ability to instantly notify their students in the event of a disaster or emergency was on most campus card vendor’s to-do lists. But the Virginia Tech incident quickly moved what had...
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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.
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
