The trend in college mail services for some time now has been a tremendous influx of packages and a reduction in letter mail. It’s largely a reflection of the e-commerce boom and the arrival of more agile delivery services. Colleges across the country have felt this trend directly, and the latest to make refinements to its mailroom services is Boston College, where the volume of packages has inspired the university to transition to a new system to improve productivity for both staff and students.

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.

With the Super Bowl coming to Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota is preparing for the eventuality of traveling fans, special events and potential security threats to its campus residence halls and students. In preparation, the university is implementing some new security measures intended to account for an influx of people to the campus and surrounding […]

Colorado State University’s student ride-share app, RamRide, has seen steady growth and student use in recent years, sparking the need for improvements to the app. The mobile app component of the service has been live on campus since March 2015 and has brought a new way for students to request a safe ride home.

As part of a pilot program beginning this semester, 300 Ohio University students will be outfitted with reusable takeout containers for use at campus dining halls in place of existing disposable, to-go boxes. The reusable containers are intended to reduce the number of disposable boxes sent to the landfill each year.

Southern Oregon University students, faculty, staff and visitors can now skip payment at meters and purchase parking permits remotely with newly launched parking app, PayByPhone. PayByPhone’s unveiling at Southern Oregon joins the company’s existing university deployments at The University of California, Berkeley and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Smart lockers are a networked version of traditional storage lockers that often use an institution’s existing contactless ID card as the key. Though the use of these intelligent lockers is just starting to grow in North America, the technology has been widely deployed around the globe. Lessons from these higher ed deployments are helping shape the technology’s rollout in the U.S. and Canada.