It’s often taken for granted just how much a modern campus card system enables its users to do. Payments, access control, attendance, event ticketing, and more are all routinely rolled into a single credential. Residential students at Maryland’s McDaniel College will soon benefit from another of those use cases, with McDaniel 1Cards now being used for dorm access, replacing the long-used brass key. 

The Super Bowl carries a massive amount of excitement for football fans. For UMass Amherst, that impact has become all too familiar in recent years with the success of local franchises like the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox. An email has been circulated to UMass students alerting them to changes on campus ahead of the Super Bowl.

Auburn University has updated and expanded the biometric access system used at its athletic facilities. Biometric security systems provider Princeton Identity Inc., is providing its new IDS software and Access200 iris readers as part of the latest system update.

The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) has released the fourth edition of its Safety and Security Guidelines for K-12 Schools. PASS’ primary mission is to provide school boards, administrators, and public safety and security professionals with a framework for implementing a layered, tiered approach to enhancing the safety of K-12 campuses.

Duke University is set to more strictly enforce student ID card verification at its outdoor athletic fields. The decision comes after recent incidents of club-affiliated activities and reserved practices being interrupted by non-university members using the fields.

Blackboard’s payments platform, Cashnet, recently won the 2018 Innovation and Excellence Award sponsored by the New England Automated Clearing House (NEACH). The NEACH 2018 Innovation and Excellence Awards showcase outstanding payments products and services to the financial industry and beyond.

When it comes to campus card systems, universities tend to have their own unique demands as they look to serve their different populations. For Flashback Friday, we look at s university’s choice of how best to deploy servers for a campus card system and why it’s anything but one-size-fits-all decision.