Wayne State University Wins Visionary Award

 The Visionary Award, presented annually at the DCSUG Conference, is Diebold’s way of recognizing customers who have seen expanded uses for a product and have helped develop the product to meet that vision.  This year’s Visionary Award winner was a little different.  This year’s award was presented to a university that developed a vision of how  its card system could be used as part of an overall plan to not only enhance its campus, but also to revitalize its own local community.

 Wayne State University, located in Detroit, Michigan, received the 2000 Visionary Award for using card system automation as an empowerment strategy to revitalize the school.  An urban university with 15 schools and colleges, Wayne State recognized its importance as a community member, particularly in one of its downtown locations that has deteriorated over the past few years. The college is working in conjunction with other businesses to improve and invest in the area.

 Wayne State has an extensive card system, which includes more than 50,000 issued cards.  The CS Gold-based system includes stored value, entitlement and access control applications that are used heavily throughout the campus.  They also have achieved a number of Card System “firsts”, including:

·        First university to install CS Value Terminals

·        First Missouri Book Store interface to CS Gold

·        First UniPrint interface to CS Gold

·        Plans to implement WebLink, a Web-based value transfer program

 Accepting the award on behalf of Wayne State University was Tim Bemos, director of One Card office, Wayne State University.  Wayne State University went on-line with their card system in November, 1999.