Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

Adding dining options with Off Campus Solutions

Monday, June 28, 2010
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Gregory Baker, chief technology officer at Off Campus Solutions, talks about the company’s technology and how it’s different from other off campus programs at the 17th Annual NACCU Conference.

“The OCS offering is a little different, on the technology side especially, because of how we manage transactions,” Baker says. “We take terminal, put them into merchant locations or they can use their existing pos and write to our interface and our transactions go to a central processing unit which is part of a global processing center … so it never goes down.”

The pricing is a little different for OCS too. The company doesn’t charge for point-of-sales terminal and provide merchant portal so that the merchants can check the status of transactions and their accounts. “They like that because it’s a little love and we want to show them love,” Baker says.

It’s more a students’ photo identification. It’s an all-in-one solution for campus access, services and events. The Mountaineer Card, the official campus card for West Virginia University, is an essential part of student life, according to The Daily Athenaeum, the university’s official student newspaper.

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Loyola University, Chicago, is offering more buying power for its students through the campus card program, allowing them for the first time to take the card off-campus at local dining establishments. The program will start small, focusing on a handful of restaurants.

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Three Auburn University students aren’t thrilled with the school’s mandatory meal plan. They’re so “not thrilled” that they’ve filed suit against the university, claiming the plan violates restraint of trade and Alabama law.

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The University of Alberta wanted a way to make sure students who needed the H1N1 vaccines were receiving them. Fred Emery, vice president and general manager at Heartland Campus Solutions, talks about how the university used its OneCardVerify system to make sure the authorized students received the medication.

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Duke University launched a mobile application for iPhones that enables students to find out news around campus, the closest dining hall and hours of operations. The university also wanted to add some campus card functionality to the app as well, says Matthew Drummond, director at the DukeCard Office.

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California State University, Northridge, is encouraging students to experience the variety of campus dining locations by giving out discounts and prizes, according to the Daily Sundial.

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