NuVision Networks, provider of one card system solutions, introduces the Tempest Reader for use in college and university campus card operations.

The full touchscreen interface is navigated similar to the iPhone’s swipe interface and use an advanced Web-based design for easy update configurations from anywhere, making it unnecessary to go to each physical machine to configure and update them.

The Dragon Capital Group announced that its subsidiary, Chendu Imaging, has partnered with Sichuan Sunbelt Culture Communication to construct a centralized card access and security system for a community high school located in Chengdu, Sichuan.

The proprietary campus card system will provide a range of functionalities to manage the various activities of faculty members and students on campus.

Hillsborough Community College is working with Heartland Payment Systems’ SolutionsSM to develop and implement is first ever campus card program.

With five campuses throughout the Tampa area, the community college will issue more than 30,000 of its new Hawk Cards at the Dale Mabry campus. Hillsborough’s Hawk Card program is built on Heartland’s Campus OneCard platform and designed to provide students, faculty and staff with a tool to access a multitude of on- and off-campus services.

The days of the old laminate student ID badges for K through 12 are coming to an end, says Education Week’s Digital Directions. Prices on printing ID cards and buying management software are dropping and student ID cards are on the rise.

Continuously evolving to serve multiple purposes, students can checkout library books, buy lunch, open lockers and school administrators can automatically track students’ attendance.

Administrators of Love Dale Central School in Belgaum, India are in the midst of testing a new method of monitoring students, with the help of RFID necklaces, reports the Deccan Chronicle.

The school recently launched a new program which requires all students to wear a RFID card around their necks, to allow parents and school officials to keep track of students throughout the day.

New registers have been added to Chicago-based Loyola University’s campus dining hall that will enable its students to use their campus cards to purchase items using Rambler Bucks.

However, as revealed by the Loyola Phoenix, some students are unhappy with the new register system, which is supposed to not only provide an additional method of payment but also speed up the check-out process. Students claim the system is slow and creates even longer lines than before.

Widener University, in Chester, Pa. has implemented a new student emergency notification system with the aid of ActiveCrawl RSS.

Using ActiveCrawl RSS, deployed through e2Campus, Widener campus can send emergency notifications that appear as text crawls on the computer desktops of all students, faculty and staff. The ActiveCrawl RSS enables Widener to incorporate its other emergency notification platforms into one automatic, synchronized alert.

A recent break in at New York’s Columbia University may have compromised the personal information of more than 1,400 people, reports the Columbia Spectator.

After announcing the burglary eleven days following the incident, campus officials released that three notebook computers were stolen from a college office that contained personal information including Social Security numbers of current and prospective students, alumni and past and present employees.

To honor the its institutional member that demonstrates high marks in a strategy that emphasizes interactive opportunities, the National Association of Campus Card Users has introduced the Excellence in Interactive Marketing Award.

The award is set to honor the best results-based card program marketing campaign that emphasizes use of electronic, interactive, and online media. Eligibility for this award requires a well documented marketing plan, utilization of various tools and actions (not just electronic media), and return on investment.

The Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore is in the process of providing its alumni members with smart ID cards so that they can continue receiving all the perks of being an IIM-B student, according to Express Buzz.

The institute is working to make its smart ID cards serve dual purposes, using it as both a form of payment and a form of authentication for accessing on-campus resources.