The latest installment in NACCU’s Talking Campus ID Tech series offers a crash course in card numbering schemes. Hear from Nathan Gray, Systems Administrator, Card Service, James Madison University, as he discusses the history of card numbering, some of the common schemes and the reasoning behind them.

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.

The University of Oregon is devoting more effort to its food insecurity initiatives for students, and is leveraging the campus card to help disperse aid to students. Beyond helping students in need of a meal, the university also sees benefits in the classroom for students who leverage these services, as hunger hinders students’ abilities to focus and perform well academically.

In an electronic election held from October 23 – November 5, 2018, the primary institutional membership voted for three open positions on the NACCU Board of Directors. The newly appointed Board will begin their three-year terms and will be installed at the Annual Meeting at the upcoming 26th Annual NACCU Conference.

The user experience for students at CBORD campuses has seen a significant overhaul this year thanks to the company’s new GET CBORD Student mobile app. The re-envisioned app consolidates the disparate GET applications under a single, new user interface that is designed to help students better navigate daily life on campus.

News of Apple devices now supporting mobile credentials on the iPhone and Watch has turned quite a few heads. Now, a student government push at the University of Texas at Austin wants to bring mobile IDs to campus.

A meeting of Duke University’s Student Dining Advisory Committee has cast doubt on the future of the campus’ food trucks after the trucks were found to be operating at a loss. The university has six food trucks operating on two evening shifts to serve the campus community. The committee has already decided to discontinue some of the trucks.

Louisiana State University is planning to check student ID cards more scrupulously ahead of the school’s next home football game against the University of Alabama. The crackdown on student ID verification is intended to mitigate students without tickets from getting into the football game.