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Grand Rapids Community College gets the upper hand on security
Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) serves nearly 22,000 full- and part-time students in an eight-block campus located in the heart of the city’s downtown. With the challenges presented by a metropolitan location, complex demographics, a large number of public buildings and a high level of movement, security is a natural and ongoing area of concern for the college community.
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California State University Library Provides Security for Contents & Occupants
At the new Tanimura and Antle Family Memorial Library, located on California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) campus, a variety of door hardware solutions provides security for the building’s contents and occupants as well as a high degree of flexibility for its users. While the library was designed to provide an open and effective environment that supports and enriches student life, it also needed to be secure without being inconvenient.
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Security is in the Cards for Skidmore College
By converting the access control of its residence halls and academic buildings from keys to cards, Skidmore College is increasing the safety of its campus, simplifying access control management and reducing staff workload for lockouts and rekeying. In addition, the latest door hardware can be changed easily between many different configurations and functions to meet changing requirements without replacement.
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University of Texas - Arlington’s One-Card System Does It All
One example of the successful implementation of this kind of solution is the University of Texas at Arlington’s one-card system. It is the cumulation of 15 years of updates and added functionality, resulting in a system that addresses the needs of students, faculty, staff and university guests.
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University of Virginia Protects Students and Prepares for the Future with CS Gold and the AD-Series
The University of Virginia ID card is distributed to all students and staff to provide identification as well as access to a host of privileges, facilities, and convenient purchases.
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Diablo Valley College Goes Wireless to Integrate with Network Security
When Diablo Valley College converted an existing building to an advanced technology center, it upgraded the building’s security with wireless electronic locks that are integrated into its security network without the need for hard wiring. The Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies solution also makes it easier to install locks on additional doors quickly and inexpensively.
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Mississippi State Goes Wireless
To achieve their goal of keeping their students safe, Wireless Integrated Locks from Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies were installed on all 223 interior doors leading into students’ rooms.
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Security Goes According to Plan at Kutztown University
By developing a comprehensive access control plan that addresses its evolving needs, Kutztown University
has been able to move successfully from improving key control through integrating electronic access control
with its one card program.
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UNC Chapel Hill Keys in Higher Security
Maintaining building security for the University of North Carolina’s historic Chapel Hill campus requires continuous planning. To provide a higher level of access control for the 350 buildings supported by its Facilities Services/Life Safety Services staff, UNC-CH recently began upgrading to a proprietary key system that eliminates the possibility of unauthorized key duplication, and is simultaneously installing new policies to ensure proper tracking of all keys.
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UNC Wilmington Re-Keys for Higher Security
As the traditional security system at UNCW expanded with campus growth, it became more difficult for key control to keep pace. Concerns that the existing key system was running out of key changes, coupled with the loss of several grand master keys, led to a program of re-keying all campus buildings with a system offering greater security.
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Lynwood Schools Move to Network Security
The community of Lynwood, California, located in Los Angeles County, is home to more than 70,000 citizens and a school district serving almost 20,000 students in grades K-12. By combining state allocations and a recent local bond issue, the school district now has the desperately needed funds to meet the demands of its young and growing population. Among the planned upgrades are: adding four new schools in the next year, for a total of 19; expanding six existing sites; and replacing portable buildings with permanent structures at several locations.
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Olathe, Kansas Schools Standardize on Electronic Access Control
Installing a Schlage Security Management System has enabled Kansas’ Olathe Unified School District 233 to eliminate the use of mechanical keys and simplify access control management at all the buildings in its system. Since 2004, the district’s 50 schools and support buildings, which serve almost 25,000 students, all have been converted to keyless entry.
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Florida School District Sharpens Focus on School Safety
For more than 15 years, the Safe Schools Institute (SSI) in Palm Beach County, Florida, has addressed the need for school safety. Today, SSI provides state-of-the-art training and evaluation for school districts across the country, covering every aspect of creating a safe, productive learning environment, from establishing physical safety to developing a climate of academic excellence. The project’s evolution has led to the development of a uniform learning climate SSI calls the “Single School Culture©” that can be reproduced virtually anywhere.
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Boone County Schools Incorporate Electronic Security
Boone County, Kentucky School District has implemented a succession of access control improvements that move progressively higher up the pyramid of security solutions. Beginning with the basics of improved key control, the district is now moving toward greater use of electronic security.
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California School District Uses Networked Access Security to protect Students, Staff and Property
Networked Access Control Brings Everything Together
Because security is of paramount importance to everyone involved, a critical part of the plan includes a complete overhaul of all building access control by replacing mechanical keys with a networked electronic system. In making access control uniform across the entire district, AUSD adopted the Schlage Security Management System (SMS), a Windows®-based software program offered by Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies.
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Security is in the Cards for Cobb County School District
From a test that began as a maintenance initiative a few years ago, Cobb County School District has upgraded access at its elementary schools to a card access control system that helps ensure security for students and staff. At the same time, it simplifies access management and reduces costs. The Cobb County School District, located in the northwest
suburbs of Atlanta, is the second largest school system in Georgia.
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San Mateo High School District Keys in on Security
At the San Mateo Union High School District, a combination of relatively simple but effective access control solutions
protects students, teachers and staff with minimal system management requirements.
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Old-School Locks Just Wouldn’t Do for Piedmont Schools
This California district standardized its door hardware and keys thanks to a local bond measure and state modernization funds.
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Greenwood Community Schools
Greenwood has always been proactive about security, but several tragic well-known events increased the emphasis on doing everything possible to protect students and staff.
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Boulder Valley School District Security System Blends Keys & Credentials
Like many school buildings that are veterans of the suburban expansion of the1950s and 1960s, Boulder Valley School District needed to consolidate its access control solutions to improve security. Now, electronic locks control access through exterior doors, while restricted patented keyways improve key control and prevent unauthorized key duplication on interior door locks.
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Security System Grows with Needs at Granite School District
Through a series of improvements to its access control system, the Granite School District continues to expand its ability to provide greater security for its students, teachers, and staff. Building on basic door hardware such as exit devices, the District now is incorporating greater use of electronic security.