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.

An editorial published in the University of Texas at Austin’s student publication late last year called for the university to implement some form of mobile ID. Now, a second Daily Texan editorial has been penned, again calling for the university to issue some form of mobile IDs to UT students.

The University of Connecticut Athletic Department has announced new ticketing changes that will enable students load game day tickets to their student ID cards. The change will enable student entry on a first-come, first-served basis and will apply to football, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball and men’s hockey.

Many universities are now using the backs of their student ID cards to provide the campus community with valuable contact information for students or faculty that may find themselves in need of support. Most recently, the University of North Texas has joined this trend by printing resource hotlines on all UNT campus cards after being inspired by a student government member that lost a close friend to suicide.

Marshall University is another in the growing roster of campuses to launch Mobile Credentials from Transact and Apple. The move will enable members of the Marshall community to provision their university ID to their iPhone and Apple Watch via Apple Wallet.