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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Biometric identification solutions provider, FST Biometrics, has installed its In Motion Identification (IMID) system at England’s Wellington College to provide secure access and an enhanced customer experience for students and members of the Wellington Health & Fitness Club.

Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to campus from spring break to find that school officials were busy during the week layover. Students returned to campus to find stronger security protocols in place following the shooting that occurred at the Parkland, Fla. high school in February.