Safe Card ID, an online retailer of security card printing systems and identity kits, announced the addition of the Zebra printer product line to its list of ID card printer security products.

The new ID card printer lineup, now available on SafeCardID.com, includes several Zebra brand models that enable the printing of ID photo cards in-house, including: 

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies announced the availability of a new line of Schlage contactless smart credential readers - operating on 13.56 MHz frequency – and designed to address the industry’s current requirements while providing a foundation and scalability for future applications.

The new Schlage contactless smart credential readers provide improved security and support all applicable ISO 14443 and 15693 standards. They leverage MIFARE DESFire EV1 technology, and are encrypted with AES 128-bit diversified keys and include mutual authentication and a message authentication code (MAC) to ensure that data is safe. 

Kyambogo University, located in Uganda, has introduced smart cards for students and developed a software suite that will organize and track all campus activities, according to the Daily Monitor.

Unlike the campus’ previous manual record keeping methodologies, the new software suite will safely store student records online from the time the join the institution until they leave. Students will now also receive messages on their mobile phones informing them whether their grades have been entered into the system or not, and if they have been released for their viewing. 

Every year since 1998 Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List. Created by Beloit’s own Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, it was created as a reminder to faculty of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. Most students entering college for the first time this fall - the Class of 2014 - were born in 1992.

The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014 

University of Central Florida has expanded its card services to offer students more options when using and managing their student ID cards, according Central Florida Future.

Students and parents can now go online to view transactions, add and transfer funds, known as Knight Cash, set or change the PIN and suspend the account if the card is lost or stolen. This, and transactions will now appear in real time, as appose to the previous system which took a couple of days for an account to reflect any transactions made. 

Northland Pioneer College in Holbrook, Arizona has selected Higher One to help electronically distribute Financial Aid and scholarship refund disbursements to students.

Currently, students can only receive their refunds by a paper check, which means administrations spend long hours printing, stuffing, and organizing checks while students wait even longer to receive them. 

Students at UC Davis and California State University, Sacramento now have the ability to link their campus ID cards to US Bank and Wells Fargo, respectively, according to the Sacramento Bee.

UC Davis students will be able to use their student ID card to perform ATM debit transactions if they sign up for a US Bank account, and the same goes for CSUS students who sign with Wells Fargo.