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.

The National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU) has published a checklist for campus card offices to more effectively move toward reopening services in a safe and healthy fashion. The checklist comes at a time when universities are in the throws of plotting strategies for reopening this fall, and applies specific considerations that campus identification professionals must consider.

CR80News will moderate an interactive panel discussion with the University of Houston, Emory University, and TouchNet. The “Reopening the Campus: Preparedness for a Non-contact World” webinar will be hosted by TouchNet and feature a panel that will discuss the technologies, goals, and procedures that universities are implementing and relying on as they prepare for the fall semester.

Zoom calls are seemingly the de facto norm these days. So rather than writing this out in an article we thought a conversation would be a nice change of pace. In this episode, we chat with HID’s Tim Nyblom, about potential challenges coming this fall, as well as mobile ID and other card issuance measures that might ease some burden on the post-coronavirus campus.

Campus identity solutions provider, ColorID will be hosting two upcoming webinars that will discuss some of the solutions that could help universities to transition back into a safer campus environment this fall. Specifically, the topics of online photo submission through CloudCard, and thermal temperature scanning at entryways will be discussed in detail with attendees.

HID Global is offering its higher education customers a new support program to help provide valuable information and guidance for campuses plotting technology migrations. The program will draw from HID experts to provide support and resources that address things like creating a connected student experience, credential issuance, tightening campus security, and prepping for mobile.

Universities are making a shift to cloud-based card-issuance solutions to enable a remote card issuance experience, and redefine the economics of card issuance by ushering in new service-based models. HID Global’s Robin Tandon explains all the ins and outs of cloud-based card issuance.