The Student Services department at Arkansas State is backing an initiative that’s asking fellow students to donate unused flex dollars to the A-State Food Pantry. Flex dollars at Arkansas State are funds loaded onto student ID cards that can be used at any dining location or participating store on campus.

The National University of Singapore laid out plans to make its campus entirely cashless, but following student backlash and petitioning university officials have now scaled back the cashless plans.

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New York’s Binghampton University has agreed terms with Visions Federal Credit Union to be the university’s on-campus bank branch beginning in July, ending a more than 20-year relationship with previous partner M&T Bank.

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.