A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.

by Dennis Caulley , Vice President, Marketing, AccessID We are seeing more schools opt for proximity / contactless technology as either an upgrade to existing magstripe based access control, or for their first installation of access control. University campuses are beginning to follow in the footsteps of the corporate campus. Corporate security directors transitioned to prox/contactless rather rapidly in the 90’s as card and reader costs dropped. Convenience and reduced service costs made the value proposition quite reasonable for the business community. 

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh has chosen U.S. Bank as its campus bank card partner. U.S. Bank will provide the banking functionality for UW-Oshkosh’ TitanCard, and will also operate two ATMs on campus. 

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.

by William Adoff, President, NuVision Networks, Corp

When we first started in this business a “one-card” was simply a meal plan program and our customer was the Dining Services department or Food Service Company. It was used to replace the numbers listed on a paper or a punch card. Today our customer is the entire University and the card is used for everything. 

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.

by Read Winkelman, National Sales Manager – Colleges and Universities Transaction Processing Systems, The CBORD Group, Inc.

Three predictions for campus card system trends in 2005:

1) Web-based ordering will become the “hot new technology” 2) Wireless and handheld applications will become common 3) Integration with campus IT conventions and database platforms will become increasingly important to lower TCO 

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.

by Cam Richardson, CEO, ITC Systems

“Erudition Within a Lyceum – Requisite for Financial Recovery” There are many aspects in a campus environment that mimic the real world. It is the real world issues that surround the administrators and force decisions to be made in order that our future leaders and doers can become educated. To facilitate a positive learning environment takes much planning with ingenuity to meet these student driven demands. 

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.

by Jon Gear, Director, BuckID, The Ohio State University

In Ohio we will continue to be concerned over the bill being debated in the Ohio House and Senate (House Bill 162). The bill will have significant repercussions on our ability to continue to offer the type of program we believe the students want. The bill is written from the business perspective and not from the student or university perspective. The bill essentially wants to mandate that a program offering card-based payment services to students on campus must also make the acceptance available to off-campus merchants. 

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.

by Jim Marshall, SVP Campusbanking, U.S. Bank

2005 is going to be shaped by the last six months of 2004. Since the early summer, university and colleges are taking special care to involve students in their card program decisions and growth. Both are making sure to stay away from building relationships with financial entities that even remotely look like a business agreement.

The primary reason for adding a financial partner has historically been to benefit the students, faculty and staff. Students won’t accept less than that now.