A case for contactless
Northern Arizona upgrades campus card from prox
Locking consumables
Securing cardstock, ribbons, and printers key to preventing theft and ID fraud
27 Jul, 2018Missouri prints valuable student ride share contact on cards
With popular apps like Uber and Lyft making strong inroads on campuses, it can be hard to remember that universities also offer safe alternatives. So the University of Missouri is helping to ensure that students make it home safely with it’s own ride share program, STRIPES, by printing the contact info on all student ID cards.
23 Jul, 2018NACCU’s Talking Campus ID tech: Proximity cards
“Talking Campus ID Tech” is a series of videos detailing a number of campus identification technologies and features subject matter experts from the NACCU member community. In this installment, the first in the series, hear from Rosie Amos, University Card Manager at Calgary University, as she explains the technology underpinning proximity cards.
20 Jul, 2018Pennsylvania school district issues student smart cards
Pennsylvania’s Easton Area school district will begin issuing smart cards to students to enable building access and to track boarding and departing from school buses. School board members decided to implement ScholarChip and issue smart cards for attendance, library privileges, and eventually to purchase food in school cafeterias.
29 Jun, 2018Chinese university uses facial recognition for campus entry
A number of higher education institutions in China have deployed biometric solutions for access and payments in recent months, and adding to the list is Peking University. The university has now installed facial recognition readers at perimeter access gates to control access to its Beijing campus.
22 Jun, 2018New app promotes student safety in numbers
There’s now a different take on the campus safety app in the form of Grooop, a student-developed app out of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, that’s leveraging messaging and friends groups to ensure student safety.
18 May, 2018Pittsburgh area schools implement new visitor management system
Pittsburgh’s Penn Hills School District is stepping up its campus security efforts with the installation of a new Raptor visitor management system. The system will help boost campus security by identifying and badging visitors to district campuses.
11 May, 2018A summer to-do list for campus IT
Splunk executive lays out university IT projects to refresh over summer
For university personnel, in particular campus IT, summer break represents the ideal testing ground for new opportunities and system upgrades. In a recent piece for EdScoop, Splunk’s VP of Public Sector, Kevin Davis, lays out his top three university IT projects that are perfect to tackle during the summer.
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