Northeastern Illinois University has turned to Uber to provide a solution to its campus-to-campus student shuttle service. The university will leverage Uber’s voucher service to provide free transport, with a valid student ID card, for students needing to travel between NEIU campus locations for class.

The big mobile credential announcement last month was the emergence of CBORD as the second campus card system vendor to support mobile student IDs on Apple devices. As one of the first CBORD partnering campuses, the University of Vermont is now beta testing mobile credentials on Apple devices.

Purdue University has joined the list of early adopting campuses to deploy autonomous delivery robots from Starship Technologies. The unmanned delivery robots are equipped with GPS and geofencing technology and can navigate college campuses to deliver food and beverage orders to students.

As with the industry-level discussions over the course of this year, the theme is mobile for Allegion as well. In this video feature, hear from Jeff Koziol, business development manager, campus software partner at Allegion, as he discusses the trends in the campus card transaction market. Specifically, Koziol talks the details of mobile access control, the technologies that underpin them, as well as discusses how Allegion as a physical access solutions provider, fits into that landscape.

After a long partnership with mobile ordering provider, Tapingo, Texas State University is set to continue providing mobile ordering to its students through Grubhub. The new partnership with Grubhub, who purchased Tapingo in 2018, is expected to offer many of the same features as before along with improved delivery benefits.

There’s been a lot of buzz about mobile credentials and Apple student ID this week. A cascade of press releases from across the industry, including from Apple, CBORD, Transact, Allegion and HID is signifying that mobile credentials are primed for a promising year ahead. Headlining the announcements is CBORD’s official support of contactless student IDs in Apple Wallet, along with a roster of CBORD campus clients that are set to begin issuing mobile credentials this fall.

Food service and facilities management provider, Aramark, has acquired the privately-held Good Uncle — an app-based, on-demand food delivery service. The deal will see Good Uncle’s “freshly prepared, restaurant quality meals” delivered to popular pick-up points around college campuses.