Card History

The card had been ten years in the research, development and planning stages and finally become a reality for the campus spring semester 2006.

A number of staff and student leaders were given the charge to develop a program that would allow card holders access too many services on campus with the university identification card.

The committee gathered information regarding campus areas determining the best utilization for the card and then researched the various vendors that provide the serves they identified to be necessary and useful. Blackboard Inc. was selected as the access/transaction vendor that could provide the greatest variety of services and a contract was signed in April of 2005.

There were three components to the program develoment including:

  1. Purchasing the Blackboard Transaction system
  2. Re-carding the entire campus.
  3. Developing a new program that allows the customer to deposit funds into a declining balance account linked to his/her ID card for purchases in numerous campus locations.

After the Blackboard contract was signed a Campus Card Manager was hired to coordinate the development and implementation of the program with the many campus areas that would be using the card. Some of these areas include: Food Services, Lombardi Recreation Center, Athletic Events, and Getchell Library for printing, copies and checking out materials, vending and the ASUN Bookstore to name a few. Other services are being added as the program grows and evolves.