Jennifer McNeill from the University of Alberta shares ideas, experiences, and suggestions on how to create excellence in your card program. Using the Disney Model as a guide, she explains how you can improve your card program to create a better experience for your students.

There are a number of reasons for an institution to initiate a campus recard. Card office personnel also need to consider the method by which that recarding process will take place. But regardless of the institution or its reasons, knowing when and how to navigate the recarding process can be daunting. John Meriano and Deric Waite from Quinnipiac University offered their advice and experiences based on their university’s recent campus recarding at a presentation given at NACCU 2017.

The University at Albany, SUNY card office has replaced some 4,500 campus cards since January of this year. One way that Albany has tried to navigate card replacement — particularly for times when the card office is closed — is with its “Dane It!” program, which issues temporary ID cards to students or staff that have misplaced or damaged their credential.

HID Global has been awarded with the 2017 SSI Security Solutions award for the successful deployment of its new FARGO Connect offering at Kent State University. A cloud-based ID personalization and issuance solution, the system at Kent State dramatically simplified the way in which the university manages its high-volume student ID card issuance.

Ohio University’s OneCard office was in need of a security overhaul when the results of a 2015 system audit uncovered some potential susceptibilities. Josh Bodnar, the director of Access, Transaction, and Video Services at Ohio shares how the OneCard office now secures cardstock, materials and workstations, as well as tracks ID card production.

For large card issuance environments, like those at universities with extensive student populations, keeping the issuance operation within scope both in terms of cast and operational efficiency can be a challenge. With this in mind, HID Global has detailed some top tips and considerations for such environments in the company’s “Key Elements to Successful High Volume Distributed Card Issuance” whitepaper.

Ashland University is officially swapping out students’ old magnetic stripe cards for proximity cards. Citing rising security concerns, the university decided to replace its old card readers with multi-tech readers that support the new credentials. The university had been planning the upgrade for over a year.