The University at Buffalo has developed a COVID-19 dining service plan that’s encouraging greater use of CBORD’s GET app and other social distancing protocols to make the dining experience safe and efficient during the fall semester. GET links students’ UB Cards to their smartphones and enables contactless transactions as well as to order food, make reservations and add funds to student accounts.

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.

Financial aid disbursement can carry certain attendance requirements, and without accurate reporting that funding can be put in jeopardy. That’s precisely the experience for New Orleans, Louisiana’s Dillard University, where Transact has provided a new attendance system to replace the university’s dated, paper-based attendance tracking system.

Zoom calls are seemingly the de facto norm these days. So rather than writing this out in an article we thought a conversation would be a nice change of pace. In this episode, we chat with HID’s Tim Nyblom, about potential challenges coming this fall, as well as mobile ID and other card issuance measures that might ease some burden on the post-coronavirus campus.

Many universities are now formulating and implementing phase-back plans that will see students return to campus in time for the fall semester. This means that campus services and infrastructure will need to be back up and running. But what challenges does this pose to campus card administrators in the near term?

HID Global is offering its higher education customers a new support program to help provide valuable information and guidance for campuses plotting technology migrations. The program will draw from HID experts to provide support and resources that address things like creating a connected student experience, credential issuance, tightening campus security, and prepping for mobile.

While it’s unclear when schools will welcome back students, campuses need to be prepared for a new normal. Allegion’s Rob Lydic discusses two solutions to consider — contactless credentials and touchless access control hardware — and their ability to help reduce contact transmission and cut the number of surfaces that people touch on campus.