Florida-based Flagler College has signed on to use Higher One’s Refund Management Service to give its 2,500 students more refund choices and to allow them to receive their money quickly without having to stand in line or deal with paper checks. 

Campus card solutions provider Blackboard is getting into the laundry business. It has added the eSuds online laundry service to its product line, giving USA Technologies access to hundreds of Blackboard’s colleges and universities. 

If there were any gaps left in HID’s ability to supply its customers with a total solution for secure credentials, one more is now filled. The company announced it will buy card printer manufacturer Fargo Electronics in a cash deal. Fargo has successfully transitioned from an equipment provider to a solutions provider in the past 18 months by actively addressing the end-issuer need to tighten the credentialing environment. This fits nicely with HID’s approach to offer a secure, integrated identity architecture. The deal is expected to close at the end of the third quarter of this year. 

Tim Nyblom, formerly with the software company Ecora, has been added to ColorID’s sales team to help improve the company’s sales and service to its education customers. 

Equitrac has released its newest print and copy management solution designed for students and faculty at colleges, K-12 schools and libraries. Express 4 provides educational institutions tools for centralized management of their fleet of output devices, while offering print and copy quota allocation and payment options for users. 

Bowling Green State University recently converted to Blackboard’s Transaction System, putting in place a one card system that allows the university’s 21,000 students and 2,700 faculty and staff to utilize a wide variety of services, including vending, building access and laundry. 

Following an external attack on its computer network last year when more than 100,000 alumni records may have been exposed, Boston College has implemented Fidelis Security Systems’ DataSafe Extrusion Prevention System to prevent future attacks. The new system will guard the college’s administrative records, including alumni information, donor data, student educational records, and other sensitive financial information.