{"id":5777,"date":"2023-07-05T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2024-07-16T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T20:06:17","slug":"all-new-summer-fall-2023-undergraduate-purdue-students-to-be-issued-mobile-digital-id-cards-for-greater-campus-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/Q3\/all-new-summer-fall-2023-undergraduate-purdue-students-to-be-issued-mobile-digital-id-cards-for-greater-campus-convenience","title":{"rendered":"All new summer, fall 2023 undergraduate Purdue students to be issued mobile digital ID cards for greater campus convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —<\/p> \n

All incoming Purdue University undergraduate students for the upcoming Early Start\/Summer Start sessions and Fall 2023 semester will be issued Purdue Mobile ID \u2014 and not a physical identification card \u2014 as part of Purdue\u2019s innovative move to a Mobile First ID system. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The effort coincides with this weekend\u2019s start of Purdue orientation on Friday (July 7) for the fall semester for more than 700 incoming freshmen, ahead of the five-week Early Start and Summer Start sessions that run July 10-Aug. 11. The weeklong Boiler Gold Rush (BGR) orientation for incoming undergraduates is Aug. 15-19, with the fall semester beginning Aug. 21. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since May 2, new Boilermaker students planning to come to the West Lafayette campus in the Summer and Fall 2023 semesters have had access to Purdue 101, which is the university\u2019s required online orientation program for all incoming students, completed via Brightspace. Through Purdue 101, incoming students are guided through campus resources and information on course planning to help them make a strong start at Purdue. The online module can be done at any pace, but it must be completed before students can meet with an academic advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Mobile First\u2019 is a strategy used by many universities, and at Purdue, all incoming new students for our Early Start\/Summer Start sessions and the upcoming fall semester will be issued a Purdue Mobile ID, which will become their primary identification on campus,\u201d said Loribeth Hettinger, senior associate bursar of ID Card Operations\/Support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPhysical ID cards, meantime, will be provided as an alternative to undergraduate students who do not have a smartphone device or if theirs is not compatible with Purdue\u2019s new mobile credentials system. We want to stress that this major step in our just-launched Purdue Mobile ID initiative for students is \u2018Mobile First,\u2019 not mobile only.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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