By Jeff Staples, vice president of market development, Blackboard Transact In 2006, Blackboard Transact, a provider of credential-based commerce and security solutions to campus environments, found itself refreshing its entire hardware offering. We had a tough decision to make regarding which contactless technologies to simply support and which to make an integral part of our […]

Blackboard Transact has expanded its campus security offerings through a partnership with S2 Security to offer schools and universities more physical security capabilities. S2 Security, a manufacturer of IP-based physical security and video management systems, will integrate selected NetBox products into the Blackboard Transact platform to enable intuitive browser and mobile-delivered user interfaces that can […]

CBORD announce that Jodi Lee Denman will rejoin the company as senior director of services operations effective March 1. As a member of CBORD’s executive management team, Denman will oversee CBORD operational areas, including its 24/7/365 customer support help desk, supply chain, client relations and other operational areas. Denman has worked in client-facing accounting management […]

Students attending Monsters University are being issued ID cards to increase safety and reduce identity fraud, according to the university Web site. “Beginning this fall, students in need of ID cards will need to complete a request form in person at the Campus Safety Patrol office. The office of Campus Life, the site states, previously […]

The Student Government Associate at Western Kentucky University is offering students vouchers for half off lost student ID cards, according to a report in the College Heights Herald. An SGA administrative vice president came up with the idea when, as a resident adviser, he found out how many students lost their IDs. Students will be […]

Students are the University of Kentucky will be issued new campus ID cards starting in the spring, according to the Kentucky Kernel. The Wildcard UKID Center along with the UK Police Department will update student and faculty IDs as part of UK’s new security measures. The university will go through a re-carding process, switching out […]

Higher One announced a partnership with Allpoint Network, a Cardtronics Inc. affiliate, to enable OneAccount Premier cardholders to have free ATM access at 38,000 Allpoint ATMs. OneAccount Premier account holder’s either must have $300 direct deposited into the account each month or pay $5.95 a month. This move enables OneAccount Premier cardholders to conduct standard […]

A computer science course at the University of Virginia tested whether the mag-stripe student ID cards at the school were vulnerable to copying and were successful in creating new IDs, according to a report in The Cavalier Daily. Since the students knew the format of the data encoded on the mag-stripe they didn’t even need […]

Southern Methodist University still uses mag-stripe ID cards for physical access but at least one student is pushing for contactless technology, according to a column in The Daily Campus. “Contactless ID cards prove themselves as they can be used without being removed from a wallet. A simple wave of your wallet over the scanner will […]

BlackboardPay, a student prepaid card program, has received a 2013 Paybefore Award in the Best Consumer Value category. The award is recognition in the worldwide prepaid and emerging payments industry. BlackboardPay previously won a Paybefore Award in 2011 in the Best Government Funded Prepaid Program category. This year’s winners were selected from a record number […]