RegardingID Archive | New York community college revises cash-card approach

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Herkimer County Community College in New York will be adding more advantages to its Generals Cash Card program next fall. For example, the program will be opened up to all Herkimer County merchants who want to apply for and purchase a terminal–unless the vendor exclusively sells alcohol or tobacco.

In addition, according to the Utica Observer-Dispatch, funds from financial aid and student loans will only be available for use on campus. Students, however, can put money on the cards to spend at businesses in the community.

American Express has launched its Campus Edition prepaid card, a reloadable card available at more than 500 Barnes & Noble college bookstores across the United States. The card will provide college students with a spending and budgeting tool that can be used wherever American Express Cards are accepted.

Security breach at New York college puts credit cards at risk

If you want to use a credit or debit card at College of Brockport dining halls, forget it. Until the end of the school term, it’s mostly cash only due to a security breach which affected hundreds of credit and debit cards from students, staff and faculty.

U.S. Bank rolls out campus ID, prepaid MasterCard at Michigan community college

U.S. Bank and Oakland Community College, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., have launched a combined campus ID and prepaid MasterCard program for the school’s 78,000 students and 788 staff members.

San Bernardino students use their college IDs to ride buses

Students from the Art Institute of California, San Bernardino, have joined other students from other area colleges in using their ID cards to ride the local Omnitrans buses. With a simple swipe of their card, students can ride the buses at anytime on any route, not just to and from campus.

Heartland signs up more colleges

Heartland Payment Systems Campus Solutions division has recruited 12 higher education districts and campuses totaling 20 different colleges to manage the schools’ financial aid disbursement services utilizing Heartland’s Acceluraid electronic disbursement product.

Higher One signs 25+ new contracts, 10 renewals in fourth quarter

Higher One announced that it has added more than 25 new schools that will utilize its refund disbursement services and renewed contracts for 10 existing customers during the fourth quarter of 2011. The company now services about 200,000 more students.

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New York community college revises cash-card approach