Higher One CARES Donates through Local Scholarships, Junior Achievement, and United Way

[New Haven, CT – July 19, 2012] - Higher One CARES (Community Action for Resources Education and Service), the community outreach group at Higher One, continues to strengthen ties with the local community through fundraising and outreach efforts focused on youth education and empowerment. Led by long-time partner Junior Achievement, Higher One staff enthusiastically “took over” Columbus Academy elementary school in Fair Haven, Connecticut for a day. Participants immersed K-6 students in real-world lessons about economics, entrepreneurship and civics.

High school juniors and seniors attended an informative session at the New Haven Free Public Library held by Higher One’s Financial Literacy and Consumer Advocacy Manager, Mary Johnson. Here, prospective college students were given a “Money 101” lesson and qualified to enter the Higher One Book Scholarship. This scholarship was awarded to Treva Perry, a senior at James Hillhouse High School.

Other fundraising efforts included the launch of a United Way School Supply Drive for New Haven Public School kindergarten students, a drive which raised over $2,000 for the CT Food Bank, and $1,200 for the Rock to Rock bike ride designed to raise funds for environmental causes.  

[New Haven, CT – July 9, 2012] - Higher One, a technology and payment services company focused on higher education and a Gold level member of Oracle®PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has achieved Oracle Validated Integration of its CASHNet payment processing suite 2012.2 with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0.  With this integration, colleges and universities as well as students and parents are able to easily process “any payment, anytime, anywhere” using the CASHNet payment processing suite.  To achieve Oracle Validated Integration, Oracle partners are required to meet a stringent set of requirements that are based on the needs and priorities of the customers.  

“Our CASHNet products offer simplicity of use and bring students and parents a multitude of ways, including those that are mobile friendly, to make payments that are more convenient and accessible,” said Miles Lasater, chief operations officer of Higher One. “Achieving Oracle Validated Integration gives our clients in higher education that extra assurance that payments and transactions will occur in real-time.”

[New Haven, CT - May 30, 2012]

“Higher One has been working with the US PIRG, and our best practices are well-aligned with those recommended by U.S. PIRG in its report released today.

Higher One is not a bank, so cannot speak for those banks named and examined in the study, but Higher One’s offerings do adhere to the fundamental principles discussed by U.S. PIRG in its study, including: 1) providing students with choices, 2) being transparent about how accounts are structured, and 3) enabling colleges and universities to comply with the Department of Education’s standing regulations as they relate to the electronic disbursement of Title IV funds to students.

Higher One was founded on a college campus by students to revolutionize an archaic paper check-based system for financial aid refunds. Students on some campuses still wait weeks to receive their much needed funds.