Campus payment solutions provider, Transact has partnered with student hunger non-profit, Swipe Out Hunger, to address college student food insecurity. Together, the two organizations will devote resources to better ensuring college students’ success by addressing some of the burdens that hunger can pose to students.

With the summer upon us and students away from campuses for the extended holiday, campus administrators can leverage this valuable time to learn and implement new solutions. To help narrow things down, campus ID solutions provider, ColorID, will host an informative webinar series covering all of the biggest campus ID solutions.

For universities that had plans to migrate credential technologies over the past year, the arrival of a pandemic and the budget restraints that followed forced many to pivot their 2020 initiatives. Allegion’s Jeff Koziol discusses these challenges and the funding avenues available that can help colleges and universities prepare to bring students back to healthier campuses and contactless tech.

Access control solutions provider, ASSA ABLOY has launched its new HES ES100 Wireless Electric Strike, which enables an easy, affordable retrofit solution for remote control and monitoring at an entryway. The HES ES100 combines features from the existing HES 1500 and 1600 Series electric strikes with Aperio wireless technology.

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.

Card transaction system provider, TouchNet has entered the mobile ordering fold with the TouchNet OrderAhead app, which gives students the ability to place orders and pay for items from participating dining locations. But while mobile ordering on its own would be a boon to any campus, the OrderAhead app is bringing far more to the table amid the ongoing social distancing challenges posed by the coronavirus.

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs is now enabling students, faculty, and staff to add their Lion OneCard to their smartphones and watches to leverage mobile credentials across campus. The move to mobile credentials is being led by UCCS’ Office of Information Technology and includes a mobile credentialing program, contactless payment, building access, and more.

Northern Michigan University will offer $100 food credits, to be loaded on campus card accounts, to any students and staff that upload proof of their COVID-19 vaccination. The proof of vaccination will be uploaded to individuals’ university accounts via NMU’s Bridge App, and the dining credits can be used by swiping an NMU ID card at checkout.