Florida International University is offering its students a new way to pay for library late fees and fines, while simultaneously helping the campus community and those in need. The university’s libraries are working with the FIU Student Food Pantry to enable students to pay down fines by providing food donations.

Rollins College has consolidated student accounts, with the university’s finance department creating a new plan that merges off-campus dining and TarBUC$ into a single account. The newly merged account will enable student to use their funds in the same manner as before, and will even add more options for use of off-campus meal money.

At Raleigh, North Carolina’s Shaw University, a number of students have failed to reconcile their tuition balances, and the campus card has been the bearer of bad news for some. Student IDs are being used as a bottleneck at the dining facility to inform students of outstanding balances.

Hundreds of national and local businesses offer discounts with a valid student ID card, but students themselves may be missing out on these deals. There are ways for universities and card office managers to take advantage of this opportunity by informing students of these discounts, and in the process, boost the value of the campus ID card.

Payment technology provider, Lucova, has announced the general availability of its FIIT POE platform – a point-of-sale register designed to enhance the customer buying experience. The system features a patented beacon sensor technology that enables access to customer profiles from a smartphone to provide staff with relevant information to deliver a personalized experience. Rounding out the company’s “point-of-experience” vision is customer recognition technology, hands-free and mobile pay, mobile ordering and a user-friendly app.

A number of college students across the country have reportedly been lured into a credit card scheme that preys on their willingness to help fellow students in need. According to the Better Business Bureau, numerous universities have reported losing thousands of dollars in fraudulent purchases made with stolen credit card information at campus bookstores.

A student at Ivy Tech Community College’s Madison campus in Indiana stole student campus card numbers and used them to make thousands of dollars in fraudulent purchases on the campus’ bookstore website.