Pennsylvania’s Bloomsburg University has long been using its leftover dining funds to stock the shelves of the local food pantry, and donates more than a ton of food and thousands of dollars in meal-plan funds each year. And a more unique use of the donations, is in the Bloomsburg Food Cup­board’s bagging of breakfast, lunch and snacks for elementary students from under privileged families to take home each weekend.

Tulane University is moving to a new campus emergency notification system, changing from previous provider, Rave Alert, to Everbridge. Everbridge offers a suite of safety alert systems for a number of verticals including higher education, with campus deployments at a number of universities including UCLA and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Touchnet sales engineer, Dave Falldien, provides a detailed rundown of the Touchnet OneCard VIP solution and how it supports the full range of on-campus student transactions. In the video hear about the environments that a university can leverage OneCard VIP to create and manage their own events, deploy portable POS readers for purchases, as well as support student photo upload.

The University of Kentucky Athletics last year implemented a mobile ticketing solution that moves all football and basketball game tickets to students’ mobile devices. Now, the university has decided to double down on the system and renew mobile athletic ticketing for the coming year.

Paciolan, a college athletics ticketing service provider, has announced that it will be able to add contactless tickets to Apple Wallet and enable fans to enter stadiums with just an iPhone or Apple Watch. Students and fans will both be able to enter stadiums by placing their iPhone or Apple Watch near a contactless reader, eliminating the need to print paper tickets.

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi could soon be shuttling students around campus in a driverless bus, and using student ID cards to allow access to the service. The driverless shuttle service expected to be free for all students and faculty, but riders will need to present a valid Sandollar student ID card to ride.

Universities around the world are leveraging smart contactless lockers and the student ID card to safeguard student valuables, and spearheading the trend is Gantner Technologies with its comprehensive contactless locker system. In this case study, hear how Denmark Technical University was able to use its existing campus cards to provision student access to contactless lockers.