The National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU) has announced that Wendy McCrory from North Dakota State University will join the Association’s Board of Directors following an election held earlier this month.

In Part 2 of a contribution to NACCU’s “It’s all about the Data” video series, Emily Messa, Associate VP for Administration at the University of Houston, discusses ways to implement policy and privacy in campus card data analytics. Messa discusses the potential impact of external regulations, and the importance of proactive conversations around internal policies and procedures.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections released a new list of student ID cards that will now be accepted as valid forms of voter identification in state elections. The list includes all University of North Carolina system campuses along with other institutions that had previously submitted their campus cards for approval but were denied.

Washington state legislators are being joined by some University of Washington students to promote the addition of crisis hotlines to student ID cards issued by institutions in the state. Spearheaded by a proposed bill in the Washington state House of Representatives, first introduced last spring, the policy would see the contact information for resources like suicide hotlines printed on the backs of campus cards.

The University of Connecticut is issuing new campus cards, after making the decision to recard its entire population over the summer. CR80News recently caught up with UConn and ColorID, who assisted on the project, to talk about the new Husky One Card and the recarding process.

After launching on campuses just over one year ago, the Transact Mobile Credential has since quickly cemented itself as the next major advancement in campus identity. To discuss the developments in Mobile Credential over the past year, Transact will host a free webinar alongside the University of Alabama on Monday December 9 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST detailing both high-level statistics, and some in-depth experiences from one of its launch campuses.

Ithaca College will now enable the use of its Bomber Bucks declining balance funds by students not on meal plans. The decision will enable all students to now use Bomber Bucks to purchase food and other items on campus. Ithaca also ran a promotional event to entice students to purchase Bomber Bucks that boosted overall transactions.