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- Written by: Daniel Gundlach | Campus Security & Life Safety
Vanderbilt University enables faculty and student IDs on iPhone, Apple Watch
Embracing the benefits of touch-less access using smartphones, Vanderbilt University has expanded its investment into campus safety and security by leveraging HID Mobile Access® to deploy campus IDs on iPhone and Apple Watch through Apple Wallet.
The enhancement builds upon the university’s initial investment in mobile-enabled technologies from HID Global. These technologies capitalized on the ubiquitous nature of smartphones and mobile devices among students—90 percent of whom reside on campus throughout their Vanderbilt education— and faculty to create a campus-wide identity and access management program.
- Written by: Lynn Pollack | Globest.com
However, the National Multifamily Housing Council estimates the student housing market will grow by an average annual increase of 0.8% per year.
Investor appetite for student housing assets appears to have waned during the COVID-19 pandemic, as investment volume in the asset class remains 12% below pre-crisis levels.
- Written by: Rich Thompson
Originally Appeared in TheSigHouse Spring 2018
The Sigma Chi experience is much more than the chapter house. But the chapter house is an essential component of the experience since it provides the stage where friendships are grown and the seeds of high minded values are sown. As with friendships and values, the chapter house requires care and renewal, all of which costs money...sometimes BIG money.
- Written by: Ashley A. Smith | EdSource
The $47.1 billion higher education package is highest level of state funding in history.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills Wednesday that would improve college affordability and make it easier for community college students to transfer to the state’s public university systems.
Read more: Newsom signs bills to ease college transfer and improve student housing
- Written by: Sarah Brown | The Chronicle
Since the fall semester began, students at nearly 20 colleges have protested what they describe as a culture of sexual assault and drug abuse at fraternity parties.
The surge of anger against predominantly white campus Greek life is striking. Hundreds of students have turned out to protest at some universities — in some cases as a reaction to a single sexual-assault allegation.
What’s more, students aren’t just calling for reforms. They’re demanding that individual fraternities, or their campus’s entire Greek-life system, be shut down permanently. They’re demanding the reshaping of who holds power over the campus social scene and what it looks like.
Read more: Anti-Fraternity Protests Are Sweeping Campuses. This Is How We Got Here.
- Written by: Josh Orendi | Phired Up
“Put us to work! We’re ready.” Aaron Varnue, said on a call last week. He’s a junior business major and chapter president of Acacia Fraternity at Purdue University. Aaron’s chapter isn’t alone. Fraternities and sororities are ready right now to help their schools with student enrollment and retention.
Colleges across the country fear that enrolled students won’t show up on campus this fall. This is the COVID-19 effect. Over 40% of parents report that they are either uncertain or would not send their child to school for the fall semester in a remote-learning environment, according to an April 10-14 survey conducted by Tyton Partners.
Read more: An Unlikely Hero: How Fraternities & Sororities Can Save Higher Education
- Written by: Rich Thompson
Sigma Chi's Epsilon Eta chapter at California State-Fresno now features a solar panel system paid with a $177,338 donation from a chapter alum.