NORTH CANTON, Ohio –What do you get when you combine an automated teller machine (ATM)/check card with a campus identification card? A multipurpose card that provides tremendous convenience and marketing opportunities for everyone involved. “Savvy marketers know that what college students lack in savings account balances they more than make up for in relationship potential,” […]

Delaware State University (DSU) and Siemens have implemented what could be one of the most groundbreaking campus card programs in the United States to date. But few outside of the 4,000 cardholders on the campus know much about the project. Perhaps that is because while Siemens, the project’s technology leader, is a major worldwide presence, […]

Visitors to next month’s National Association of College Auxiliary Services Annual Conference will have the chance to see first-hand the truly integrated card system in place at Colorado College. As a preview for attendees and to give a taste for what the rest are missing, the following review of the college’s CBORD campus card system […]

Somewhere on your campus there is, very likely, a magnetic stripe stored value system in operation. Maybe it is a full-blown part of your campus ID card enabling cashless purchases in vending machines, photocopiers, and laundry facilities. Or maybe it is a stand-alone system for copiers in some renegade department, an internal control device for […]

Once a student registers at the North Orange County Community CollegeDistrict’s Cypress College, his or her student card is ready a short one minute later. From that point on, the Cypress College student will use that ID card as identification on campus, as a check ID at the student bookstore, to enter laboratories and even […]

Hofstra is a private university located in Hempstead, NY about 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island. More than 13,000 students participate in the undergraduate, graduate, and law programs. An additional 2600 faculty/staff raise the Hofstra population to 15,000 individuals. Add the cards are issued to alumni and special programs and the total HofstraCard […]

Why did the librarian cross the road? To get to the barcode. Frequently, card programs receive significant resistance from campus librarians. On many campuses, no other entity has more frequent interaction with the ID card than does the library. Add to this the fact that the librarian’s role has undergone staggeringly rapid change caused by […]

The following process shows one method for generating library numbers from the student ID encoded on the mag stripe. In this case the institutions existing system utilizes a 14-digit barcode and the unique ID number encoded on the magnetic stripe of the card is a 16-digit ISO number. Other scenarios exist, but function in much […]

Times when one card may not be enough Who among campus administrators hasn’t adopted or at least strongly considered the value of the “One Card” concept. It is hard to argue with the idea that a single card issued by the institution should perform all card-controlled functions across the campus. It only makes sense. There […]

In the Fall of 1997, the University of Houston began issuing the Cougar 1 Card to 38,000 students, faculty, and staff. The institution saw a need to better control access to facilities and ease payments on the campus and a decision had been made to eliminate the overlap that occurred with three separate departments issuing […]