Colorado School of Mines has a strong relationship with card system vendor, Touchnet, with the pair collaborating to deliver a fully featured card transaction system for Mines students. To shed some light on the card system in place at Colorado School of Mines, Bob Mask, Director of Campus Card Services, delves into some of the details.

A new meal donation initiative has commenced at Vanderbilt University offering students the option to donate meal swipes to students in need. The program is enabling those grappling with food insecurity to apply for and receive up to five meals per week through the university’s dining services and financial aid departments.

Georgetown University’s fall semester meal-swipe drive managed to double the number of student donations it received last spring from 538 to 1,092. The program enables donation recipients to access swipes directly from their GOCards — Georgetown’s student ID card — in an effort to both increase participation in the program and make the process more discreet for those individuals facing food insecurity.

Savannah State University has made the decision to stop issuing meal plans that include Dining Dollars, instead offering meal plans supplemented by students’ personal cash or Flex Funds. The decision to discontinue Dining Dollars was in part the result of a policy implemented at the University System of Georgia level.

University of Pennsylvania students have a new way to place mobile food orders on campus after the university’s dining services established an agreement with Transact to provide its Mobile Ordering app. Penn Dining launched the “Penn Eats” app at the start of the fall semester and will enable students to place orders from their mobile device and skip payment lines to head straight to pick up orders at both campus-run locations and the on-campus Starbucks.

In a new video series with The National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU), the topic of card transaction system data analytics will be examined from all angles. A major talking point for university administrators, card system data carries a plethora of opportunity as it pertains to campus services and the student experience on campus. In the first installment of the series, hear from the University of Houston’s Emily Messa as she discusses how best to work with card transaction system data on campus.

Transact VP of New market Development, Jeff Staples talks about the Transact Mobile Credential and how campuses can begin to prepare for a deployment on their campus. Then hear from Transact Sr. Directory of Product Strategy, Kent Pawlak, as he explains a bit of what’s happening behind the scenes that makes Mobile Credential work so seamlessly.