Students may be seeing more signs around Monroe saying “Warhawk Express accepted here” since 14 off-campus locations have been added to the program.

While the Warhawk Express program has been around for years, there were previously only three off-campus locations where students could spend that money.  Brook Sebren, coordinator of auxiliary enterprises, has been working to expand the program for students’ convenience.

This semester the list will include University U-Pack-It, CVS Pharmacy, Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt, Wingstop and 10 other Monroe locations.

Sebren said there are at least a dozen other locations that want to join the program, but they may be considered in following semesters depending on this semester’s success.

“It’s really cool to see merchants show patronage to the University,” Sebren said. “It’s my hope that this program will help ULM embrace the community.”

In addition, students who add money to their Warhawk Express accounts at the beginning of the semester can immediately have access to their financial aid money. Sebren explained that students using Warhawk Express will be able to use the money from their refund checks to buy books as early as a week before classes begin.

Ben Calhoun, a freshman biology major, said he has already used Warhawk Express at an off-campus bookstore. “It’s convenient and rewarding for students to be able to spend the money they get back from the university off campus,” Calhoun said.

While it’s too late now for students to add money to Warhawk Express directly from their fee bill, students can still add money by cash or check at La Capitol bank on campus.

Sebren said he hopes to install Warhawk Express terminals on campus within the next two weeks so that students can use the program to buy CAB t-shirts and to pay for guest fees and towels at the Activity Center.

In the future, Sebren hopes to make the program accessible online so parents can log in and deposit money directly to their student’s account.

“Those programs can be expensive,” Sebren said, “but we’re working very closely with the computing center to sort out the kinks.”

There are some purchasing restrictions. Students are not allowed to buy gas, alcohol or tobacco with Warhawk Express.  For the full list of locations currently accepting Warhawk Express, please visit
www.ulm.edu/warhawkcard.