The CBORD Group announced that the GET platform, used at colleges across the country, is available as a native smart phone app putting student services at their fingertips 24/7. The platform also supports MICROS order integration enabling online and mobile orders on campus or off. Available as an app or mobile-optimized Web site, GET is […]

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is expected to sign a bill that would ban biometric in schools throughout the state. In this latest edition of the Regarding ID podcast, legislators detail why they think a ban is necessary instead of providing an opt-out provision. Senator Dorothy Hukill (R – Port Orange) says the biometric ban is […]

A wide variety of identification and authentication technologies are well entrenched at universities nationwide, and it seems biometrics is starting to make noise on campuses where speed and security are both needed. Hand geometry readers have been fairly common on campus for years but more recent deployments are leveraging fingerprint and even iris biometrics to […]

HID Global announced that its networked access controllers and readers have been selected by the National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI) in China to enhance campus security and facility management. The solution leverages the university’s existing TCP/IP network investment to deliver a web-based access control system that provides centralized monitoring and report generation, […]

Zack Martin, editor, Avisian Publications In February 2014, the General Accountability Office released a report on debit and prepaid card programs on college campuses, urging the U.S. Congress and Department of Education to take action. Campus banking relationships have been under fire for two years since the Public Research Interest Group (PIRG) released a critical […]

CardSmith announced availability of its Pay-by-Phone feature in its mobile Cardholder Account Center. The app enables students to make payments with their smart devices similar to the Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts apps. Pay-by-Phone enables students and others to use their smart phone to make payments from any dining or discretionary spending accounts with the touch […]

Students at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill. have been swiping on and off the school bus for a couple of years but now parents can check when and where they tapped their IDs with a system from MyFirstPass, developed by the First Student bus company. Parents can use mobile phones, tablets or computers to […]

By Bob Lemley, Director of Software Development, CBORD Campus life begins and ends in the residence hall. Students are likely to spend more time there than anywhere else on campus. That’s why colleges and universities are putting greater focus than ever before on securing these central hubs of activity. In the past, residence hall security […]

Richland County School District One, with its headquarters in Columbia, S.C.., has selected ScholarChip to provide smart photo ID cards for both students and staff. As the awarded firm, ScholarChip will provide the District with twenty smart ID-card issuance stations. Richland One will begin by using ScholarChip’s student mobile Hall Monitoring service: displaying a student […]

Students swipe their IDs when they get on the school bus in the morning and when they get off. Each action also prompts a text message to the parent letting them know the location of the student. School districts are increasingly looking at different kinds of identification technology to try and keep students safe as […]