As students return to school, packing lecture halls and moving into dorm rooms in the colleges and universities, officials behind the scenes look for ways to safeguard the students, faculty, and assets. To accomplish this feat, today?s higher education organizations look for a combination of policies and new technology solutions.

Manufacturers and integrators work diligently to meet the needs of colleges and universities by introducing new and innovative ways for security officials to confirm student identity and control access to key locations. Here are five technology-driven ways universities are meeting these demands:

Event Management. With students constantly on the move from one place to another on a college campus, security officials must stay on their toes, finding new ways of granting and restricting access to buildings and classrooms. One new way that security officials are avoiding problems with access control is by integrating event management systems with access control solutions.

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