It will replace the need for a separate Podium card. Electronic disbursement will make funds available to students much more quickly than check disbursements. Citibank will return royalties to the University, on a per transaction and interest earnings basis. Participants in this program will be offered very competitive long-distance rates and an opportunity to obtain a calling card to stay connected to MCI as they travel within the U.S. and internationally. As an incentive to participate, those University members who take advantage of the program will receive 100 free minutes of domestic calls and 100 free minutes of international calls.
Plans also are under way for using the cards for building access.
Over the course of the summer, the Diebold corporation will install card readers on a total of 70 doors exterior dorm doors, the academic podium, and academic buildings on the Downtown Campus.