CR80News | Penn State using IDs for football tickets

Friday, May 8, 2009

Student tickets for the 2009 Penn State football season will be stored on student ID cards, according to the Daily Collegian. The athletic department has also set up a Web site that will enable students to sell tickets, instead of using emails like it’s been done in the past.

One issue is whether to allow students to upgrade tickets by paying an extra fee and enabling non-students to use them. Officials have developed procedures to make upgrades possible but they are unsure if students want to upgrades.

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NACCU announces 2013 award recipients

The National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU) handed out its annual awards at its 20th Annual NACCU Conference held in Orlando, Fla.

The association bestowed its 2013 Distinguished Service Award to Joel Weidner, director of information systems and marketing at Pennsylvania State University. Weidner has been at Penn State for 30 years and has managed the automation process for many of the university’s systems, including food production and inventory control, event ticketing, payroll, residence hall security, dining plan card access and card-based vending, laundry and copier programs. He has also overseen two university-wide re-carding projects.

Pennsylvania congratulates university for making student IDs acceptable for voting

Penn State University has been commended by the state’s secretary of the commonwealth, who oversees the state’s elections, for making the school’s student IDs acceptable for voting under the state’s new voter ID law.

Minnesota considers electronic tickets

The University of Minnesota may be joining some of the other Big 10 schools by eliminating printed football tickets and storing them on students’ IDs instead.

Student IDs replace paper tickets for campus events

Paper or plastic?

By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications

The campus ID card is replacing the paper ticket for entrance to sporting events and other activities at universities across the country.

Vol State upgrades campus card to include financial aid delivery

Volunteer State Community College located in Gallatin, Tenn. is partnering with Heartland to expand the Volunteer State Campus Card to encompass prepaid debit card features for students who are receiving financial aid, according to the college’s student newspaper.

Confidex fully up to speed on Netherlands public transportation system

Confidex, a supplier of contactless smart tickets, announced that its tickets are now fully implemented on the RET (Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram) public transportation system in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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