Illinois State University is revamping its student ID card, the Redbird Card, with a new design aesthetic and enhanced technology to bring the card inline with modern campus credentials. The major component of the revamp will be the university’s move to smart card technology that will leave behind legacy mag stripe and proximity protocols being used throughout campus.

The University of Tennessee’s Vol Dining is implementing CBORD’s GET Food app to support mobile food ordering this fall. Vol Dining will continue to be open for the semester with protective measures to make the student dining experience as convenient, safe and enjoyable as possible.

The University of Southern Mississippi is making alterations to its dining services by introducing touchless payments for students in campus dining facilities. The payment changes come in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will join other measures, including socially distant seating, and changes to how food is prepared at all university dining venues.

The fall semester is just around the corner, as is the return to campus for students, faculty and staff. With this in mind, the University of Georgia has outlined its approach to COVID-19 surveillance testing and notification for its campus community that will begin on August 10, with the first day of UGA’s Phase Three reopening plan.

The University of Connecticut has selected Seos smart cards and HID FARGO Connect secure issuance solution from HID Global to optimize card issuance and strengthen security across UConn’s network of campuses. The HID FARGO Connect cloud-based platform will enable UConn to move to a distributed model for ID issuance and eliminate student wait times, while Seos card technology eliminates vulnerabilities present in UConn’s legacy system.

For many universities the return to campus is just around the corner, no longer than a month away. That’s the case for the University of Houston and Emory University, so together with TouchNet, CR80News will moderate a roundtable discussion to talk about some of the concerns and expected challenges at the two universities ahead of the fall semester.

Entrust Datacard is offering a series of free webinars for higher education institutions designed to discuss the TruCredential solution and help navigate both current and future challenges on campus. The sessions will draw on the company’s 50+ years of experience and insight in access control to help universities to strategize and succeed in this new climate.