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OBTAINING AN MCARD UM-Flint students, faculty, and staff can obtain a new or replacement Photo ID card (Mcard) by going to one of the UM-Flint Mcard Stations which are open during normal lab hours (see list of stations at right). Picture Identification is required to obtain an Mcard. History of the Mcard Project A team of ITS staff worked throughout 2005 to implement the use of the Mcard Photo ID card at the UM-Flint campus.  Faculty and staff were issued their Mcard starting in Fall 2005. The team began by identifying two locations in Open Computing Labs that would serve as Mcard Stations (please consult the list on the right).  Each station is made up of a camera with tripod, a computer with the Photo ID software installed and a card printer.  The placement of these two stations was targeted for May 2005, so that testing with the cards could be done in the Library for checking out books and printing and in the Recreation Center for use of the facilities.  Other planned uses for the Mcard include card swipe door entry for buildings.  In the future, other campus-wide or department-specific uses for the card can be adopted. The team also has worked on ordering startup supplies such as card stock, color ribbons and card readers.  Other tasks include documenting policies and procedures and training lab consultants to use the Mcard Station equipment.  To view the Mcard Policy, please visit http://ww2.umflint.edu/its/policies.htm#mcard. ITS used employee University Photographs (on file with University Relations) to print cards for all faculty and staff, and the cards were delivered to the departments in Fall 2005.  ITS took pictures of new faculty who attended a New Faculty Orientation on August 23, 2005 and set up a mobile Mcard station for the New Faculty Orientation Resource Fair on August 22, 2006.  Any employee without a University Picture, may bring picture identification and visit an Mcard Station to obtain their new Photo ID card.  ITS started issuing Mcards to students in Winter 2006 semester and sets up a mobile Mcard station in the UPAV at the beginning of each semester.

UM-Flint Mcard Stations (in Open Computing Labs-check Lab Hours)   206 Murchie Science Building   3174 William S. White Building (WSW)   Mcard News   Students At the beginning of every semester, ITS distributes Mcards in the UPAV.      Faculty/Staff Faculty and staff can obtain their Mcard during by visiting one of the Mcard Stations in the open labs listed above. Faculty and staff who pay for parking on the UM-Flint campus can easily use their MCard for parking in the faculty/staff ramps on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor campus.

 Last updated on May 14, 2007.

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