Cost-Effective Marketing Strategies for Campus Card Offices

Watch an engaging and practical webinar designed specifically for campus card office professionals looking to maximize their marketing impact without stretching their budgets. Featuring insights from three different institutions, this session will showcase creative, free, and low-cost strategies to promote your card office’s services and engage your campus community. Presenters will share real-world examples of how they leverage available resources for effective communications and marketing campaigns. Attendees are encouraged to bring questions and ideas—this is a great opportunity to learn, exchange tips, and leave with actionable takeaways to enhance your outreach efforts.

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Zero to Hero: Building Out Campus Card Services One Step at a Time

Implementing changes to card services and technology on campus can feel overwhelming, but with the right approach, you can make impactful improvements one step at a time. McMaster University, in collaboration with TouchNet, is here to guide you through a proven, manageable process that will help you create a holistic campus experience tailored to the evolving needs of the next generation of students.

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Mercury MP Intelligent Controllers, Embedded Apps, Cyber Resilience, and the Power of Open Architecture

Campus security is evolving fast — is your infrastructure ready? Join us for an exclusive NACCU member webinar as we explore the future of access control with Mercury MP controllers and the new Embedded Application Environment. We’ll cover essential design best practices, dive into critical cybersecurity updates like AES encryption, TLS 1.3, and OSDP Secure Channel, and examine how these changes impact the systems many campuses rely on today.

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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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