The move to contactless cards is one of the most important decisions facing campus card offices today. In this video spotlight, learn how Purdue University improved its student experience by issuing contactless student ID cards that underpin all aspects of life on campus.

California’s Saddleback College has implemented a comprehensive access control system from Assa Abloy at the campus’ new sciences building. The catalyst for the upgrades are simple: ensure the emergency response process on campus is streamlined, effective and efficient; and upgrade from an outdated, less secure brass key system.

Trusted identity and secure transaction technology provider, Entrust Datacard, and card system vendor, CBORD, have completed CS Gold integration with TruCredential software. The integration replaces the requirement for IDWorks software, and has been successfully tested at the University of Vermont.

The way that student ID cards are used on college and university campuses has changed dramatically in recent years, and will continue to evolve in 2018. Issuers will be accelerating their adoption of mobile IDs, and take a more integrated approach to access control that significantly improves how campus services are delivered. With all this in mind, here are some campus trends to watch in 2018.

A newly proposed bill in the state of California is calling for all campus cards issued to students grades 7 to 12 to have a suicide prevention hotline contact printed on the back.

When it comes to a campus identity environment, navigating decisions regarding credential technology, expensive reader hardware, mobile, biometrics, and whatever comes next, can be tricky. And it shouldn’t be done in the proverbial vacuum. In this, the third installment of a series detailing ColorID’s Identity Roadmap, we explore the reasons that a university should leverage industry expertise when mapping out its campus identity future.

New York’s Saratoga Springs School District is issuing new bus cards to students that will help monitor arrivals and departures from bus stops and campuses. The RFID cards will help enable parents to check in real-time if their child has boarded the correct bus and was dropped off at school premises.