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.

ColorID spends considerable time on the road and in web presentations speaking with campus card professionals from universities of all sizes. One of the common threads across these conversations is mobile ID. CR80News recently spoke with David Stallsmith, Director of Product Management at ColorID, to cover some of the common mobile ID questions he hears from campuses, and to hear about ColorID’s efforts around building mobile ID infrastructures for university clients.

The University of Connecticut Board of Trustees unanimously voted to sublease a residence hall on UConn’s Stamford campus to the city of Stamford to house recovering COVID-19 patients. The temporary occupants will consist of those who have already been treated and discharged by local hospitals, but who still test positive for the virus.

Despite a vast majority of students returning to their homes for the remainder of the academic calendar, many universities are still serving a small number of students for whom traveling home isn’t an option. Vanderbilt University is one such campus, and Vandy Campus Dining has established a care package service for its remaining on-campus residents to help them during the pandemic shutdown.

Campuses are now beginning to strategize and plan for on-campus life in the wake of the pandemic lockdown. With this in mind, CBORD is launching a FREE webinar series beginning Tuesday, April 28, designed to help universities in reopening facilities with a focus on making the campus environment healthier. The series, entitled “A Healthy Return,” will feature sessions throughout May, June and July covering topics for card office, food service, security, IT, and housing staff.