Texas A&M University has announced new socially distant procedures for student ID card issuance this fall, including online photo submission and pickup appointments. The new scheme is being spearheaded by the university’s Student Business Services and will issue students their new Aggie Cards from the university’s football stadium in an effort to better ensure health and safety.

For campus card offices, one of the major challenges with the fall semester is how to provision student ID cards in a way that doesn’t require high foot traffic to the office. With this in mind, Indiana University Bloomington has incorporated a somewhat unique means of card distribution for new students.

Illinois State University is revamping its student ID card, the Redbird Card, with a new design aesthetic and enhanced technology to bring the card inline with modern campus credentials. The major component of the revamp will be the university’s move to smart card technology that will leave behind legacy mag stripe and proximity protocols being used throughout campus.

The University of Connecticut has selected Seos smart cards and HID FARGO Connect secure issuance solution from HID Global to optimize card issuance and strengthen security across UConn’s network of campuses. The HID FARGO Connect cloud-based platform will enable UConn to move to a distributed model for ID issuance and eliminate student wait times, while Seos card technology eliminates vulnerabilities present in UConn’s legacy system.

For many universities the return to campus is just around the corner, no longer than a month away. That’s the case for the University of Houston and Emory University, so together with TouchNet, CR80News will moderate a roundtable discussion to talk about some of the concerns and expected challenges at the two universities ahead of the fall semester.

Entrust Datacard is offering a series of free webinars for higher education institutions designed to discuss the TruCredential solution and help navigate both current and future challenges on campus. The sessions will draw on the company’s 50+ years of experience and insight in access control to help universities to strategize and succeed in this new climate.

Financial aid disbursement can carry certain attendance requirements, and without accurate reporting that funding can be put in jeopardy. That’s precisely the experience for New Orleans, Louisiana’s Dillard University, where Transact has provided a new attendance system to replace the university’s dated, paper-based attendance tracking system.