Safran Identity & Security has recently completed a three-month pilot project that tested student use of wristband-based wearable payments at a university in Medellin, Colombia.

Barcodes will soon be a thing of the past at the University of Notre Dame, where beginning this summer the Irish1Card Office will start issuing new contactless cards. The new, multi-technology credentials will retain the magnetic stripe that Notre Dame has long utilized and will for the first time feature chip technology.

The key to navigating the contactless conundrum is to seek out information and ask the right questions. In a new, live webinar with Blackboard Transact the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will discuss their move to a contactless credential and how it’s changed the way the campus has approached the “one card” concept.

Hidden below Northeastern University in Boston is a network of tunnels that serve as a passageway for students traversing between key buildings on campus. Unlike the famous tunnels in other cities, these don’t hold catacombs and no Phantom lurks within. Instead Northeastern’s tunnels house one of the world’s leading deployments of advanced contactless lockers.

For some, the image of a student locker still evokes thoughts of cutout celebrity photos taped inside rusty metal boxes. But on modern college campuses, lockers are being re-envisioned to serve a real need for busy students. Today’s lockers often feature sleek designs to integrate into high-end buildings, while new technology is replacing metal keys […]

Messiah College is now issuing a new ID card for students, ushering in contactless technology for physical access and other card functions. The new contactless cards will be used at a wide array of card readers across the Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania campus and will be leveraged for access to residence halls and recording the college’s mandatory chapel attendance.

Rounding out the week’s coverage is a video spotlight of the University of Colorado Boulder’s campus card promotional video. Boulder’s card program has put together an informative, well edited and professional video for its students to learn about the many uses of the Buff OneCard.