Stony Brook University has joined the growing roster of campuses to deploy reusable takeout containers in campus dining halls. As with other deployments, the initiative at Stony Brook is expected to cut both food and disposable container waste.

Princeton University has made it easier for students to share a meal with each other thanks to a new electronic meal exchange program that encourages more interaction between members of the university’s various eating clubs.

New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University has taken a proactive step toward opening a new revenue stream on campus. The university’s newest residence hall — a 96,000 square foot, seven-story facility — will convert to a 188-room hotel during the summer months.

We often overlook just how easy it can be to leverage campus card technology to improve the student experience. The women’s center at Tufts University has experienced just this by installing a card reader at its facility for the first time in a move that will expand availability to students.

Hofstra University has implemented new access privilege protocols for its resident assistants, revoking previously universal access rights to all campus residence halls. The revocation of access privileges marks the end of a pilot program that Hofstra’s Office of Residence Life had enacted to assist RAs in carrying out their duties.

Students at UC San Diego will soon be able to use their campus cards and TritonCash to pay for a number of essential health items from a campus “Wellness Vending Machine.” UCSD’s University Centers Advisory Board (UCAB) has also approved the new vending machine for sale of generic Plan B pills.

The trend in college mail services for some time now has been a tremendous influx of packages and a reduction in letter mail. It’s largely a reflection of the e-commerce boom and the arrival of more agile delivery services. Colleges across the country have felt this trend directly, and the latest to make refinements to its mailroom services is Boston College, where the volume of packages has inspired the university to transition to a new system to improve productivity for both staff and students.

Rollins College has consolidated student accounts, with the university’s finance department creating a new plan that merges off-campus dining and TarBUC$ into a single account. The newly merged account will enable student to use their funds in the same manner as before, and will even add more options for use of off-campus meal money.

With the Super Bowl coming to Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota is preparing for the eventuality of traveling fans, special events and potential security threats to its campus residence halls and students. In preparation, the university is implementing some new security measures intended to account for an influx of people to the campus and surrounding […]

Colorado State University’s student ride-share app, RamRide, has seen steady growth and student use in recent years, sparking the need for improvements to the app. The mobile app component of the service has been live on campus since March 2015 and has brought a new way for students to request a safe ride home.