TouchNet, a Global Payments company, has announced Sam Passer as its new Vice President of Client Experience. This move comes as universities and higher ed institutions continue to shift to a digital-first approach to campus commerce and credentialing systems.

Campus payment solutions provider, Transact Campus, Inc., has announced the appointment of Nancy Langer as the company’s new CEO. In this role, Langer will oversee the company’s full ecosystem of integrated payments, ID solutions, and campus commerce technology. Langer succeeds David Marr, who will assume the role of Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and advise on strategy, key partnerships, and client engagement.

With a goal of modernizing how computer science is taught through immersive learning, Transact, provider of payment solutions for a connected campus, has committed its support to the University of Limerick’s new Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) Program. As part of its commitment, Transact will participate in hosting ISE Program Residencies and will join the ISE Advisory Board, comprised of a coalition of global leaders.

The National Association of Campus Card Users announced the winners of its annual NACCU Awards during a virtual Awards Ceremony event. Here’s the full rundown of the individuals and institutions honored for their accomplishments over the past year.

The National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU) has recognized Ken Boyer from Mercer University as the recipient of the NACCU J. Paul Melanson Award. Boyer is only the ninth recipient of the J. Paul Melanson award since NACCU was founded in 1993.

The 2021 installment of the NACCU Annual Conference came and went this week, with campus card professionals from around the US and Canada converging on the virtual environment of Degy World. The team at NACCU faced a major undertaking moving its flagship event to an all virtual format, but the end product was a memorable and unique one for attendees.

A series of unrelated data breaches and cyberattacks have cropped up at universities across the country in recent weeks. University databases are always a prime target for hackers and would-be fraudsters, and a few recent incidents are serving as a reminder of the value that university databases hold. Here’s a brief rundown of a few cyberattacks that have taken place at the University of Colorado, Brown University and the University of Maryland.

Ohio State University is rewarding its students who complete daily health checks and fulfill COVID-19 testing requirements by offering gift cards and other prizes. Operating as a kind of loyalty program, students may win priority course scheduling, food and shopping gift cards or even MacBook computers.