Trusted identities solutions provider, HID Global, has added a new advancement to its Signo line of readers, incorporating biometrics into the HID Signo Biometric Reader 25B. The biometric reader is designed to capture and read fingerprints in real-world applications and conditions.

HID Global will be presenting a pair of webinars as part NACCU’s Virtual Expo Showcase. The two virtual events will cover the move to mobile and physical security at university healthcare and research facilities. We caught up with HID’s End User Business Manager for Higher Education, Tim Nyblom, to discuss some of the topics to be covered in HID’s upcoming webinars.

In this edition of CR80Chats, we kick off our video series with Grubhub by discussing all things mobile ordering with Grubhub Campus’ Head of Industry Relations, Ben Anderson. Mobile ordering has cemented itself as a must-have service for modern students, but with new challenges posed in 2020 along with a pandemic, Grubhub Campus and its services have taken on new meaning.

Campus payments and transaction system provider, Transact, is presenting a free virtual expo to discuss mobile credentials. The “Enabling mobile credential driven experiences on your campus” event will be hosted by NACCU as part of the Association’s Virtual Expo Showcase series. Attendees of the event will learn how institutions can align their long-term vision for mobile credentials with a first-class student experience across both Apple and Android devices.

Campus payment solutions provider, Transact has partnered with student hunger non-profit, Swipe Out Hunger, to address college student food insecurity. Together, the two organizations will devote resources to better ensuring college students’ success by addressing some of the burdens that hunger can pose to students.

With the summer upon us and students away from campuses for the extended holiday, campus administrators can leverage this valuable time to learn and implement new solutions. To help narrow things down, campus ID solutions provider, ColorID, will host an informative webinar series covering all of the biggest campus ID solutions.

For universities that had plans to migrate credential technologies over the past year, the arrival of a pandemic and the budget restraints that followed forced many to pivot their 2020 initiatives. Allegion’s Jeff Koziol discusses these challenges and the funding avenues available that can help colleges and universities prepare to bring students back to healthier campuses and contactless tech.