Touchnet sales engineer, Dave Falldien, provides a detailed rundown of the Touchnet OneCard VIP solution and how it supports the full range of on-campus student transactions. In the video hear about the environments that a university can leverage OneCard VIP to create and manage their own events, deploy portable POS readers for purchases, as well as support student photo upload.

The University of Kentucky Athletics last year implemented a mobile ticketing solution that moves all football and basketball game tickets to students’ mobile devices. Now, the university has decided to double down on the system and renew mobile athletic ticketing for the coming year.

Paciolan, a college athletics ticketing service provider, has announced that it will be able to add contactless tickets to Apple Wallet and enable fans to enter stadiums with just an iPhone or Apple Watch. Students and fans will both be able to enter stadiums by placing their iPhone or Apple Watch near a contactless reader, eliminating the need to print paper tickets.

Despite already being voted one of the safest colleges in the country by Alarm.org, the University of Louisiana Monroe is adding another string to its bow with the launch of the new campus safety app. The new ULM Safe app was launched on June 3 and enables students to report emergencies and notify campus police of dangerous incidents or suspicious behavior they may encounter on campus.

It’s indisputable that mobile apps are redefining the way students interact with the college campus. With more utilities being added seemingly by the day, a recent in the University of Arizona’s student publication, The Daily Wildcat, listed seven mobile applications that are must-haves for first-year students.

Food insecurity is a growing issue for students across the country, leading to meal-donation programs popping up on campuses across the country. But the University of California, Merced’s iCare meal donation program has set the bar particularly high both in terms of the service it provides and how the system has been implemented.

Read Winkelman, Vice President of Sales at CBORD, discusses the company’s suite of solutions and how they contribute to CBORD’s Connected Campus concept and the company’s efforts around being more open, mobile and connected. Hear how CBORD has opened its APIs to more applications, established new partnerships with POS providers, and moved more of the company’s offerings to the cloud.