Georgia Southern University’s Eagle Dining Services is using a new mobile ordering app called GATA-Go to support food and beverage orders for its campus community. The GATA-Go app is being offered through card system vendor, Transact, and will offer a similarly convenient means for students, faculty and staff to place orders from their smartphones at on-campus retail dining locations.

The price of ID cards for faculty, staff, and students at UC Santa Cruz will be going up to a flat fee of $25 for all replacements. This marks the first fee increase for replacement student IDs at the university since 2012.

Adding to Allegion’s support of Transact Mobile Credentials in Apple Wallet, the company’s Schlage AD Series locks now fully support contactless student IDs on iPhone and Watch. This new capability is specific to Schlage AD-300 and AD-400 electronic locks, which feature built-in credential readers and access control sensors for simplified installation.

HID Global’s Director of Business Development, Education Solutions, Brett St. Pierre provides a rundown of the company’s solution suite for the higher education vertical. In addition to newer solutions in the mobile identity and biometrics arenas, St. Pierre also discusses the company’s continuing focus on card technologies, and cites some of HID’s recent acquisitions and other investments around the card technology sector.

When it comes to campus dining, more universities are looking to self-service kiosk solutions underpinned by the campus card system as a means to offer students greater flexibility and convenience. Discussing this topic in greater detail, CBORD is hosting a free webinar dedicated to self-service options for campus dining, with the University at Buffalo presenting its experiences with self-service ordering in a medical school environment.

Pennsylvania’s Bloomsburg University has long been using its leftover dining funds to stock the shelves of the local food pantry, and donates more than a ton of food and thousands of dollars in meal-plan funds each year. And a more unique use of the donations, is in the Bloomsburg Food Cup­board’s bagging of breakfast, lunch and snacks for elementary students from under privileged families to take home each weekend.

Tulane University is moving to a new campus emergency notification system, changing from previous provider, Rave Alert, to Everbridge. Everbridge offers a suite of safety alert systems for a number of verticals including higher education, with campus deployments at a number of universities including UCLA and Rochester Institute of Technology.