Austin Peay State University is enabling its students to use their phones to order food from campus venues via Transact Mobile Ordering. This month, Austin Peay’s Dining Services, alongside food-service provider, Chartwells, launched its “Govs To Go” program backed by Mobile Ordering from Transact.

Secure ID and card printer solutions provider, Evolis, is seeking to make life easier for students and staff with its automated card issuance kiosks. The self-service solution offers campuses a means to completely automate the card issuance process, free up valuable time for staff, and slash lines and wait times for students.

This month marked the start of a new contact tracing program at the University of Southern California that’s leveraging the student ID card to notify students of possible exposure. The “Tap for Tracing” pilot program is enabling students to tap their university ID card when they arrive at one of five designated locations on campus to then be notified within 24 hours if anyone else who tapped in at that location has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Engaged staff at Rochester are pushing some of the limits of the Grubhub platform, using the system in unique ways beyond just mobile ordering. This healthy partnership between campus and vendor has led to a cooperative pushing of boundaries and valuable problem solving both before and after a global pandemic.

Long Island University has launched its MyLIU Mobile Card that will allow students, faculty and staff to get around campus with just a tap of their iPhone, Apple Watch or Android phone at campus readers. Long Island University partnered with Transact, a leading campus credential solution provider offering NFC-enabled digital IDs, to support the implementation.

Card trasaction system provider, TouchNet is hosting a webinar to discuss mobile IDs and the impact that the technology is having on the student experience. TouchNet’s “How Mobile IDs will Transform the Student Experience” webinar is free to attend and will be held Wednesday, April 7 at 1:00 PM CDT.

CBORD will be hosting a webinar alongside Entrust to help provide a pathway for universities to migrate from ID Works issuance software to the new era of Instant ID. The “ID Works to Instant ID: A Seamless Transition to Prepare You for the Future” webinar will be held Wednesday, April 7 at 2:00 p.m. ET.