Cutting the Line: Palm Biometrics at a University Dining Hall

A large university moves thousands of students through their main dining hall each day. Faced with long lines taxing both staff and students—and significant credential sharing—the university made a bold move to address these challenges: piloting ITC’s palm biometric credential solution. In this session, learn how the pilot was designed to improve wait times, staff resourcing, and revenue while reducing credential sharing. We’ll also explore other exciting possibilities for palm biometric technology on campuses, including several pending pilots.

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Convergence of Higher Ed and Off-Campus Student Housing

As campuses face student housing shortages while aiming to expand their populations, off-campus housing emerges as a viable option for colleges and universities. Join Allegion’s Tyler Webb and Kristina Hurley, with moderator Jeff Koziol, to explore this trend and off-campus housing options. The panel will address managing the student experience beyond campus control and standards for security, access, credentialing, dining, and recreation in off-campus residences. Gain insights from these experts and discover strategies to achieve your campus goals. 

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So, You Have the Summer Off?

If your campus hosts summer groups and camps you have three busy times every year: fall startup, spring startup and all summer! Between planned outages and upgrades to the ever-changing population of summer groups, camps, conferences and summer students there are a lot of administrative tasks to ensure that cards are ready to meet their needs. Watch to
explore how the University of Montana and the University of Notre Dame answer the question “So, you have summers off?”

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The Road to Becoming a High Performing Card Office

The NACCU Standards and Guidelines (SAGs) program provides a roadmap toward becoming a High Performing Card Office based on our industry’s professional standards. The SAGs self-evaluation program results can be used to guide strategic plans, highlight opportunities and strengths, and identify weaknesses and areas that need development. The SAGs evaluation tool provides for a consistent process which can be replicated to ensure that the assessment cycle continue. Join the SAGs faculty to learn more about the Standards and Guidelines program, how SAGs can help your program, and how you can get started.

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Meal Plan Administration

Does your card office administer meal plans for your campus? Are you new to meal plan administration or a seasoned veteran? Are you curious about different styles of meal plan options that you could implement for your campus? Presenters Mike Hovestol from University of Notre Dame and Andrew Treu from University of Montana will help you embark upon the wide world of meal plan administration.

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