Adding an off campus merchant program to your ID can raise student satisfaction, town-gown relations and even revenues. Off Campus Solutions’ Greg Baker detailed the range of options available to campuses, highlighting benefits and constraints with the various approaches. Most campus food service operations have found that a merchant program does not negatively impact on […]

Heartland Payment Systems’ Campus Solutions division has produced a YouTube video showing off the features of one of its newest products, MyPay. The mobile application, good for Android and Apple iOS devices, enable students and administrators to use their smart phones or mobile devices for on-campus purchases and as a virtual campus ID card. MyPay […]

If a university accepts credit card payments to fund accounts in its campus card program, there must be procedures in place to guard against fraud. Shira Fogel, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, describes a $19,000 instance of credit card fraud perpetrated against UAB’s BlazerBucks program. She explains how her staff used the experience […]

Eric Stoller is a social media guru, higher ed consultant and sought-after speaker. He combined all these talents in an enlightening presentation at NACCU 2011, when he challenged campus card leaders to really begin to use “social” to build their programs. “Start small, get really good at one thing – get really good at facebook, […]

Working proactively with students via orientation, special events and other opportunities can increase usage of the campus card and related services. Ellen Robinson Wyatt provides a first-hand account of creative ways the University of Cincinnati maximizes Bearcat Card participation. Taking a lead role in new student orientation, linking up with student leaders, involving local merchants […]

Physical access controls for server rooms, proper cash handling procedures and card stock inventories are just a couple of the areas that will likely be reviewed during an audit of a campus card office. Kathy Gallagher, director of the Wildcard office at Villanova University, reviews these and other things she learned during a recent audit […]

Mobile devices are poised to become the ID credential of the future. In a recent video interview, Blackboard Transact president David Marr shared his views on mobile platforms in higher ed and the impacts on campus card offices. CR80News’ Chris Corum discussed the topic with Marr as well in a podcast. He describes the mobile […]

When Blackboard deploys Sony’s FeliCa contactless smart cards, the credentials have two areas, one that is a secure area where payment and physical access control transactions take place and an open area where the school can add its own applications, says Jun Shionozaki, technical consulting manager, FeliCa Business Division at Sony. At the National Association […]

Campuses wanting to be greener may want to give USFI a look. The company offers biodegradable and recycled card stock for IDs. A typical PVC card will take between 200 and 300 years to breakdown in a landfill, where as USFI’s biodegradable cards will turn to dust anywhere from nine months to five years, says […]

Print management on campus can be a difficult task to conquer but WEPA–Wireless Everywhere, Print Anywhere–has a different take on the problem. Campuses that deploy WEPA enable students to print from the cloud, print from a USB drive or print directly using wireless from a laptop, says Frank Griffith, CEO at the company. WEPA also […]