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Come to the Table: Meal Plan Administration

Come to the Table: Meal Plan Administration

Does your office manage the administration of your school’s meal plan programs? Are you interested in how others are doing it at their institutions?  Join us for a presentation on the administration of student meal plans.  We’ll talk contracts, billing, programming and more.  

Presenters:

Meghan Rosenberg, Babson College 
Anna Lambert, College of Staten Island
Nicole Kerns, University of Southern California 

Jorrun Liston  to  Everyone:

               Welcome to Come to The Table: Meal Plan Administration.  We are recording this presentation and will post it on naccuTV.

Kim Wermers  to  Everyone:

               At DSU we have Sodexo as our food services provider and we do the Swipe Out Hunger program with them to give students some additional swipes if they run out of their meal plan….up to 20 swipes for the semester.   We also have a campus pantry that students can make appointments to utilize for food, hygiene items, etc if they are in need.

Sara Munds – UIS  to  Everyone:

               Deb, we’re a self-op so it’s completely run by Food Service

Jennifer Carman  to  Everyone:

               Does anyone use StarRez and integrate a Stored Value account into Transact?

Jen McDonald – McMaster University  to  Everyone:

               McMaster is self op

Sara Munds – UIS  to  Everyone:

               Laura, we don’t have anything through our office, but we have a robust UIS Cares Food Pantry that’s available for students

Meghan Rosenberg – Babson College  to  Everyone:

               Our Senior Director of Campus Services oversees the Chartwells contract along with procurement

Jen McDonald – McMaster University  to  Everyone:

               Food security services at Mac: https://wellness.mcmaster.ca/all-about-food-programs-on-campus/

Laura Callahan  to  Everyone:

               At Mason, Sodexo donated 1,000 meals, started a coins4change, and meal swipe donation. We also have a food pantry.

Jen McDonald – McMaster University  to  Everyone:

               Our IT team has automated the Meal Plans chosen in StarRez then being added to our TouchNet system

Sara Munds – UIS  to  Everyone:

               this has been FANTASTIC!!!

Jennifer Carman  to  Everyone:

               Thanks!

Melissa Battle  to  Everyone:

               thank you!

Deb Nightingale  to  Everyone:

               @Jonathan Swaby can you provide more info on your atuomation

Kim Wermers  to  Everyone:

               Awesome job!! 🙂

Melissa Battle  to  Everyone:

               Replying to “@Jonathan Swaby can …”

               Me too, please!

Laura Callahan  to  Everyone:

               Thanks!

Jorrun Liston  to  Everyone:

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Kim Wermers  to  Everyone:

               This would be a great presentation at the conference!!  🙂

Anna Lambert  to  Everyone:

               Thank you everyone for participating!

Anna Lambert  to  Everyone:

               If anyone has additional questions feel free to reach out.

Jorrun Liston  to  Everyone:

               Thank you to my guests Nicole Kerns from the University of Southern California, Anna Lambert from the College of Staten Island and Meghan Rosenberg from Babson College and to all who attended.  Enjoy your day!

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