The University of Kentucky Athletics last year implemented a mobile ticketing solution that moves all football and basketball game tickets to students’ mobile devices. Now, the university has decided to double down on the system and renew mobile athletic ticketing for the coming year.

Paciolan, a college athletics ticketing service provider, has announced that it will be able to add contactless tickets to Apple Wallet and enable fans to enter stadiums with just an iPhone or Apple Watch. Students and fans will both be able to enter stadiums by placing their iPhone or Apple Watch near a contactless reader, eliminating the need to print paper tickets.

The University of Connecticut Athletic Department has announced new ticketing changes that will enable students load game day tickets to their student ID cards. The change will enable student entry on a first-come, first-served basis and will apply to football, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball and men’s hockey.

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.

University of Kentucky athletics will change its processes for home sporting events, and move to a mobile student ticketing solution for both football and men’s basketball beginning this season. The new ticketing process was developed following feedback from students asking for mobile ticketing options and easier access to tickets.

Students at Western Michigan University already get free access to all campus sporting events with a valid student ID card, but the university’s rewards program provides additional incentive for loyal student fans. Now in its third year, the WMU Student Fan Rewards Program awards student that attend a WMU sporting event, with points that can be redeemed for prizes.

Students at Colorado State University will for the first time be able to claim their athletic tickets using a new online ticketing portal, and scan their student IDs at the gate for entry.

The athletics department at the University of Kentucky has launched a new video campaign to help deter ticket scalping for university athletic events. Accompanying the video campaign is a new webpage devoted to educating fans about ticket security.

Bryant University Athletics has launched an official fan rewards program, Bryant Bulldog Rewards, as a way for the campus community to better connect with campus athletics and will accompany the program with a new mobile app. The rewards app will provide fans with information pertinent to all home events and select postseason contests, as well as enable registered users to earn reward points redeemable towards prizes provided by the athletics department.

When the topic of card issuance is discussed in the higher education realm, typically we’re talking about the standard CR80 card size – the size of a credit card. We often forget, however, that there are larger format credentials that can be used for a myriad of event, ticketing and conference environments. This begs the questions, then, why would you need a large-format ID? And when does it make sense to issue a larger credential?