Following an announcement with participating Wells Fargo Campus Card colleges and universities in February, the bank has publicly introduced a set of new benefits that are now in effect for students who have opted to pair their student IDs with their Wells Fargo checking accounts. The benefits include offering Wells Fargo Campus Card customers the opportunity to receive waivers or credits for four services that some students use as they begin managing their first bank accounts.

In 2017, the University of Georgia made the advancement of card technology a priority on campus. After long leaning on a combination of mag stripe and prox card technologies, the need to update and upgrade was more than evident. So UGA’s OneCard Oversight Committee examined its card environment from within, and focused its decision making on a desire to own the entire card system process — encryption keys and all.

This year marked the inaugural edition of the Transact Distinction Awards, presented at the Transact annual Spring Training users’ conference. This year’s event was held in San Diego, Calif. in March, and university recipients were presented with their awards and recognized for their achievements on stage.

Having launched CBORD’s Odyssey campus card solution years ago, student satisfaction has long been the catalyst for card system initiatives at Suffolk University. So when Suffolk needed a solution that both eliminated time-consuming, manual processes and also provided a single point of contact for both hardware and software queries, CBORD and Allegion stepped up to the plate.

The companies behind the innovative robot deliveries at George Mason University have rolled their solution onto a new campus. Students at Northern Arizona University can now order food for robotic delivery after NAU deployed a fleet of more than 30 autonomous robots.

It’s nearly that time of year again for the National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU) to convene for the Annual Conference. The premiere event for the campus card industry, the NACCU Annual Conference is the perfect resource for card office professionals wanting to learn more about their industry.

There’s a growing body of research indicating that classroom attendance is inherently linked to student academic performance and success. Old Dominion University is the latest to implement an attendance solution, and has done so by constructing its own hardware solution in house.