Mercer University announced the availability of its Bear Card Mobile Credential for Google Pay. Building on the initial 2019 launch of the mobile Bear Card, students, faculty and staff can now use their Android mobile phones to easily access facilities and make contactless payments on and around campus.

While it’s unclear when schools will welcome back students, campuses need to be prepared for a new normal. Allegion’s Rob Lydic discusses two solutions to consider — contactless credentials and touchless access control hardware — and their ability to help reduce contact transmission and cut the number of surfaces that people touch on campus.

Card system vendor, CBORD, announced the launch of CS Gold 8, the latest iteration of its card and access solution for higher education. Available now, version 8 of the CS Gold campus one-card system provides flexibility and customization options.

Auburn University has announced changes to its annual summer orientation program, Camp War Eagle, that will see students participate in planned events from home. The change comes as universities continue to chart a course forward amid the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing guidelines.

Georgia Southern University has been providing mobile ordering to its students since 2015 and has seen nothing but strong usage and order volumes year on year. But as the university’s contract with its mobile ordering provider was approaching renewal in June of 2019, the university began weighing its options. Here’s how the university chose Transact Mobile Ordering.

As universities across the country continue to issue reimbursements to students to cover services that have been stopped due to the coronavirus shutdown, the University of Connecticut has added another refund to the list. UConn Parking Services will now issue prorated refunds to students who purchased a university parking permit.

Universities are making a shift to cloud-based card-issuance solutions to enable a remote card issuance experience, and redefine the economics of card issuance by ushering in new service-based models. HID Global’s Robin Tandon explains all the ins and outs of cloud-based card issuance.