A new Liska Biometry ID system pilot project under way in an unnamed public school system will help safeguard students and schools by allowing administrators to identity every student as well as determine individuals who are not authorized to be on campus. 

Former HID Global Managing Director David Sullivan has been named the new president of Fargo Electronics, secure card identity systems provider. Mr. Sullivan will be responsible for setting the strategy and development of business objectives for the Minneapolis, Minn.-based company. 

Frequently, campus administrators struggle with the decision to add a banking partner or other off-campus functionality to their campus card. How will it affect spending on campus? Will it cost me more or will it generate revenue? What will happen to our card’s stored value accounts?

According to several colleges that have chosen to add banking and other off-campus functionality to their campus ID cards, the advantages for off-campus card use far exceed the disadvantages. In the end, these colleges agree that students love the extra choices available to them and that pays off in the long run. 

University of Washington selected CBORD’s Foodservice Suite to serve its 40,000 students and 4,700 board plan participants. The school will make use of modules for “menu management, inventory management (including PDA-enabled data entry for onsite inventory tracking), CBORD’s nutrient database, nutritional accounting, event management, and interfaces for order transmissions to outside vendors, point-of-sale terminals, and accounts payable.” 

Two insitutions in St. Louis have signed with Higher One to provide refund management services. The 27,000-student St. Louis Community College will use the Higher One services and ID card offering, while the 22,000-student Webster University will use disbursement services without the ID card offering. 

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor

When PricewaterhouseCoopers went from 13 different buildings down to one at its Zurich, Switzerland office, many of its 1,200 employees were using different ID cards providing only limited uses. So why not switch to one multi-function card?

That’s what the company went searching for. “We’ve always tried to look for state-of-the art systems and we found this card,” explains Corina Gerber, facility management, senior manager, for PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland (PwC). 

Fargo Electronics has named three smart card/printer industry veterans to its sales and marketing team: Steve Blake, Alan Fontanella and Charlie Ross.