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Attracting faculty and staff to your campus card banking service

Monday, May 8, 2006

Sure, students are a bank’s reason for its campus existence, but a more profitable client base includes the ones teaching the students … as well as the university administrators and staff. But attracting professors and staff that already have a banking relationship is no easy task.

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Tallahassee-based Florida A&M University and campus card service provider CardSmith have announced plans to upgrade the university’s multi-functional Rattler Card program.

The new Rattler Card will feature Rattler Bucks, a prepaid spending account offering FAMU’s more than 13,000 students cashless access to an expanded range of campus facilities and services including the bookstore, dining venues, mobile payments, campus offices and off-campus merchants.

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Huntington Bank, Columbus, Ohio, has launched a new service for Ohio State University that will enable its students to link their Buck ID cards to their Huntington checking accounts at no charge. The service is part of Huntington’s $125 million partnership announced by bank and university officials last month.

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U.S. Bank and Oakland Community College, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., have launched a combined campus ID and prepaid MasterCard program for the school’s 78,000 students and 788 staff members.

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Arizona State University, Tempe, and the state’s largest privately-held bank have partnered to implement a MasterCard student ID for students and faculty. Labeled the Pitchfork ID after the school’s nickname, the Sun Devils, the MasterCard is intended to function as a check card and student ID, enabling access to dorms, recreation centers and meal plans.

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U.S. Bank and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, have partnered to offer the Wolfpack One Card, a campus ID card that doubles as a prepaid MasterCard. The card will be offered to incoming freshmen beginning in June. Current students, faculty and staff can upgrade starting in October. As part of the contract, U.S. Bank will also deploy ATMs on campus.

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A new partnership between Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minn. and U.S. Bank will enable the school to offer enhanced banking services to its students, faculty and staff through the school’s campus ID card.

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