CR80News | Tennessee university takes its ID Buc$ program off-campus

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

In an effort to give its students more spending options, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tenn. has extended its declining balance ID BUC$ program to off-campus merchants. So far, five businesses, including a grocery store, pharmacy, two fast food restaurants and hair salon, accept the school’s ID BUC$ mag stripe card which is linked to the student’s ID card.

Participating merchants have identifying stickers on their doors, and they are listed on the Campus ID Services Web site. The university hopes to add more merchants in the future.

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.

U.S. Bank rolls out campus ID, prepaid MasterCard at Michigan community college

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.

Saint Joseph’s University to launch new Hawk Card program

Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and campus card service provider CardSmith have announced plans for an expansion and upgrade to the school’s campus ID card program.

Campus card 'evangelist' strikes out on his own

Tom Bell offers expertise to campus card directors

Paraphrasing a famous comedian, Tom Bell says that campus card programs ‘get no respect.’ This is despite the fact that if a school’s card program were suddenly to go away, he believes the university would practically shut down.

Northwestern drops outdated payment system

Northwestern University is eliminating what it calls “an antiquated system” with the discontinuance of its CashStripe program, which students use to transfer cash to their WildCARD to pay for print jobs and buy products from select vending machines.

Computer server at University of Maine hacked

Social Security numbers and credit card information of 2,818 users of a University of Maine computer server may have fallen into the hands of hackers, according to university officials.

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Tennessee university takes its ID Buc$ program off-campus