The University of Utah is now revisiting its access control policies for campus residence halls and updating its guest policies following the death of student on campus last October. In total, the security overhaul has plans to consider upwards of 30 campus safety recommendations.

It’s often taken for granted just how much a modern campus card system enables its users to do. Payments, access control, attendance, event ticketing, and more are all routinely rolled into a single credential. Residential students at Maryland’s McDaniel College will soon benefit from another of those use cases, with McDaniel 1Cards now being used for dorm access, replacing the long-used brass key. 

The Super Bowl carries a massive amount of excitement for football fans. For UMass Amherst, that impact has become all too familiar in recent years with the success of local franchises like the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox. An email has been circulated to UMass students alerting them to changes on campus ahead of the Super Bowl.

Auburn University has updated and expanded the biometric access system used at its athletic facilities. Biometric security systems provider Princeton Identity Inc., is providing its new IDS software and Access200 iris readers as part of the latest system update.

The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) has released the fourth edition of its Safety and Security Guidelines for K-12 Schools. PASS’ primary mission is to provide school boards, administrators, and public safety and security professionals with a framework for implementing a layered, tiered approach to enhancing the safety of K-12 campuses.

ASSA ABLOY’s Angelo Faenza discusses the company’s vision for higher education access control, how to navigate card technology migration decisions, and shows some of the hardware offerings that universities can leverage to better secure their campuses.

At the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, campus officials are trying to better educate students of the dangers of “piggybacking.” To help illustrate the point, UCCS Police have put together a short informative video demonstrating what piggybacking is and why students should avoid letting it happen.

Texas’ Lufkin High School has installed fingerprint readers at exterior entrances to campus for students and faculty access. The move makes Lufkin the first high school in East Texas to install keyless entry fingerprint scanners at campus entry-points.

A number of universities in China have turned to biometrics to support access control to academic and residence facilities, and a new dorm at Shanghai Normal University is taking this trend to another level.

Following a deadly shooting involving a student and his parents on the campus of Central Michigan University in March, university officials have ramped up campus-wide physical access control upgrades. Core to the security upgrades has been the installation of card readers on all residence hall doors.