Maryland's Washington College has now made the student ID card a necessary component of its Safe Ride service in an effort to improve the service through examining frequency of ridership. The card readers will be used, in part, to record...
Connecticut's Westhill High School will begin printing the contact info for a suicide prevention hotline on the backs of all student ID cards thanks to the efforts of one of its students. Printing suicide prevention hotlines on student ID cards...
A new campaign from Active Minds, Crisis Text Line, and The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is advocating for students to lobby their universities to print mental health hotlines on student ID cards. The"Transform Your Campus: ID Cards Campaign" is the...
A newly proposed bill in the state of California is calling for all campus cards issued to students grades 7 to 12 to have a suicide prevention hotline contact printed on the back.
Every institution with a campus card system is, right now, sitting on a veritable mountain of data. Every touch point where the student ID card is used across the campus and beyond – payments, dorm and building access, event ticketing...
Card office tasks that are only performed once a year are understandably harder to remember to execute. And even if office personnel remember to complete the task, there's still no guarantee that all the necessary steps will be covered. With...
Idaho State has launched a campus mobile app that includes valuable resources including an interactive campus map and contact info for counseling services. The new campus app comes after the recent announcement of a new campus safety app provided through...
Northern Arizona University recently completed its jump to contactless student IDs, in part as a response to some security limitations associated with the university's old 125 kHz prox credentials, as well as in an effort to bring the campus card...
Library patron ID is an age-old campus card function that's been around since the earliest credentials. But as library materials grow in value to include things like laptops and tablets, it may be time for more robust verification measures at...
An increasing number of states are accepting campus cards for voter ID, begging the question, how far is too far for the university ID? In the early days of university IDs, Social Security numbers were routinely printed on the faces...
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