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.

Following isolated security risks at two campus residence halls, San Diego State University is enacting new measures to better account for unauthorized guests. To help prevent the problem going forward, residence hall administration has created a new system to ensure all those who enter campus residence halls will have their SDSUcard checked.

In the first of a three-part series detailing hardware and software solutions from card system vendor, Blackboard, hear from the company’s Senior Director for Platform Strategy and Product Management, Kent Pawlak. In this installment learn specifically about the latest security-centric suite of solutions that Blackboard is deploying on campuses nationwide.

With popular apps like Uber and Lyft making strong inroads on campuses, it can be hard to remember that universities also offer safe alternatives. So the University of Missouri is helping to ensure that students make it home safely with it’s own ride share program, STRIPES, by printing the contact info on all student ID cards.

“Talking Campus ID Tech” is a series of videos detailing a number of campus identification technologies and features subject matter experts from the NACCU member community. In this installment, the first in the series, hear from Rosie Amos, University Card Manager at Calgary University, as she explains the technology underpinning proximity cards.

Pennsylvania’s Easton Area school district will begin issuing smart cards to students to enable building access and to track boarding and departing from school buses. School board members decided to implement ScholarChip and issue smart cards for attendance, library privileges, and eventually to purchase food in school cafeterias.