Campus card vendor, CBORD has reset its sights on campus laundry with a new exclusive partnership with laundry solutions provider, Washlava. The partnership’s intent is to deploy the Washlava laundry reader and backend system on campuses across the country and redefine the campus laundry environment.

Designed to provide students with all the information they need to navigate potential crises on campus, safety apps are certainly a valuable resource. The University of Utah is just one of the many campuses to join this trend, and a new report reveals that the university is shouldering a growing cost for the app.

Northern Illinois University has provided its incoming students with a mobile app to help them with the move-in process. For the first time this fall NIU Housing and Residential Services fully implemented an online mobile check-in app that enables students to quickly navigate residential check-in from their phones.

The gig economy is a big hit with Gen Z students, and a new mobile app might be bringing these on-demand odd jobs to campus sooner rather than later. The Dormzi app is enabling students to request small services like doing laundry or finding a tutor on campus — from others on campus.

A new initiative at Texas Tech is letting students trade in their student ID cards in exchange for portable phone chargers. The program is intended to help students keep their devices charged during home football games when devices often run out of juice with limited opportunity to recharge.

Visitors to the Duke University campus can now pay for parking directly from their smartphone thanks to a new mobile app. The university has chosen to launch PayByPhone in an initial 12 parking lots across campus, with an additional parking lot to be added at a new alumni and visitor center once that facility it open to the public.

TouchNet’s Director of OneCard Sales, Fred Emery, speaks from the company’s first ever “cardless” booth about the latest advancements with OneCard VIP. Hear about some of the use cases for virtualized credentials on smartphones and see OneCard VIP in action with a live demo of a physical access use case.