The Hyogo College of Medicine in Nishinomiya, Japan is using a facial-recognition biometric system to log student attendance in classrooms. As reported by The Japan Times, tablets are used to check student faces against pre-registered accounts in the biometric database, and is the first program of its kind in a Japanese university setting.

The decision of whether a university should upgrade its card technology remains one of the most popular discussions in the campus card space to this day. At CR80News, it’s easily been one of the most covered topics over the years, and in our 2012 coverage “Married to the mag” we tried to better understand why campuses were so reticent to make the switch.

Read Winkelman, Vice President of Sales at CBORD, discusses the company’s suite of solutions and how they contribute to CBORD’s Connected Campus concept and the company’s efforts around being more open, mobile and connected. Hear how CBORD has opened its APIs to more applications, established new partnerships with POS providers, and moved more of the company’s offerings to the cloud.

Purdue University’s campus card has sparked discussion amongst elections officials in Tippecanoe County. The county has been using a workaround solution since 2008 that enables Purdue students to vote with their university-issued ID cards, but new discussions are questioning whether this practice is in keeping with state voter ID laws.

The winners of 2019 NACCU Awards were announced on April 10, 2019 at the Association’s 26th Annual Conference in Hartford, Connecticut. Headlining the award winners was the Distinguished Service Award, which was presented this year to Jessica Bender from Palm Beach State College in recognition of her many years of dedicated service to NACCU. NACCU also recognizes a host of other individuals and institutions for their outstanding accomplishments of the past year.

The University of North Florida is mulling updates to its campus card that would make the ID card a viable form of voter identification, as well as changes that would support preferred names. According to UNF student government, the new Osprey 1Card could be approved with printing beginning as soon as next month.

The Georgia Institute of Technology has chosen food-service provider, Aramark, as its new on-campus dining services partner effective July 1. The decision follows an open Request for Proposal (RFP) process and an internal review process that included feedback from students, faculty and staff.

CBORD’s commerce solution, UGryd has added a host of features that make expanding the campus card’s reach to more third-party providers a reality. The new additions to UGryd will be discussed in an upcoming FREE webinar alongside details about how Vanderbilt University is leveraging UGryd to bridge the gap between the university and its local community by encouraging students to patronize partnering off-campus merchants.

Sacramento State University is in the process of installing card access readers at classroom entrances as part of a larger access control effort designed to improve campus safety. Sacramento State officials say the purpose of the new access control measures is for students and faculty to be able to shelter in place and allow for quicker lockdown in cases of emergency, specifically active shooter situation.

Members of the Johns Hopkins University community now have the ability to designate preferred names in university databases, following a recent university-wide push for greater inclusion on campus. The university’s new preferred name policy is aimed at those who go by a different name as a reflection of their gender identity, or those who use an Americanized alternative to a name in their native language.