Michigan is now joining the list of states to explore legislation mandating that student ID cards feature suicide prevention phone numbers. The state’s “save our students act,” is a bipartisan House bill introduced this month that would make suicide hotline information readily available on student identification cards.

Nova Southeastern launched a brand new campus card loyalty program this month that rewards students when they use their SharkCard student ID to make purchases. In addition to rewarding the use of its campus card, NSU’s loyalty program is also seeking to improve student engagement on campus by incentivizing attendance and participation in university events.

The University of Montana is bringing food trucks back to campus dining fold after a long hiatus. It’s been almost two years since the University of Montana’s own food truck suspended its regular service, but following requests from students three outside food truck concepts will roll onto campus this week.

Attendance tracking solutions are growing in popularity in recent years and the trend has seen a number of new entries in the higher education space. Among the newer attendance solutions is a mobile app called SpotterEDU, which has added the likes of Syracuse and more recently the University of Missouri.

The University of Florida is leveraging student volunteers in a secret shopper program to help evaluate and hone in its student-facing campus services. The program has been operation for some time now and is designed for secret shoppers to report feedback on their experiences in various university-run businesses.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently partnered with Starship Technologies to enable students to place food orders to be delivered by the company’s fleet of autonomous delivery robots. Now, university officials have successfully added the Wiscard, UW-Madison’s student ID card as a form of payment with the service.

A new SMS-based chatbot is attempting to use natural language processing and machine learning to proactively engage at-risk students and connect them with on-campus resources. The company behind the solution, EdSights, is an education technology firm focused on improving student retention and wellness in higher ed.