Welcome to the Bison Card Center. As you begin your tenure at NDSU you will become familiar with the Bison Card Center and its services including the issuing of your Student ID, the Bison Card. You will need to stop by the Bison Card Center located directly behind the Bison Connection in the Memorial Union to receive your Bison Card sometime before your first day of classes (bring appropriate ID). The Bison Card is required for many of your day-to-day activities at NDSU. In addition, the Bison Card Center has information regarding meal plans and can add Bison Bucks to your account.

• New NDSU Bison Cards
• Getting Your Card
• Card Uses & Services
• Bison Bucks

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New NDSU Cards are Coming!

The new cards include proximity technology, which will replace keys for external door access and are easier to use. These cards no longer need to be "swiped," you can simply place your card near the proximity reader.

This system will allow NDSU services to be better integrated, and will provide better security and access.

Over the next year, existing magnetic stripe door hardware will be replaced with proximity readers. As your need for door access changes through this transition, please come to the Bison Card Center (Memorial Union, main level) to exchange your current ID for the new card. Residence hall students will receive the new cards at check-in this fall.

Returning students, faculty or staff can exchange their current cards for new ones at no cost. New NDSU students or current card holders who may have lost their card, will pay $20 for the card. Cards damaged beyond normal use can be replaced for $10.

If you have any questions please contact us at the card center at 701-231-6252 or e-mail at ndsu.bison.card@ndsu.edu.

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Getting Your Card

To obtain a Bison Card, please bring with you:

• A photo ID (preferably a state or federal one like your driver's license)
• Your printed class schedule
• $20 cash, check, or you may charge this to your account
  
  

Lost ID Cards: If your student ID is lost or misplaced, call NDSU Police, 231-8998 immediately to deactivate it, or 231-6252. A new card from the Bison Card Center, Memorial Union, costs $20.

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Card Uses & Services

A student will need to come to the Bison Card Center to have their Bison Card (Student ID) issued on or before the first day of classes. There are several essential services that will only be given to students who have their Bison Card on their person. Notably, you will need your Bison Card to:

• Gain entry to your residence hall
• Get into the dining centers
• Charge books at the NDSU bookstore
• Use computer cluster printers
• Get into the Wellness Center
• Check out books from the library
• Ride the campus bus system

You will also want your Bison Card to:

• Ride the FM bus service for free
• Take a cab anywhere for $3 (must get sticker from Student Government office)
• Take advantage of the notepad and pencil distributors in the library
• Pay your parking fee at the visitor's pay lots.
  
  

> View the Bison Card List of Services

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Bison Bucks

Bison Bucks is a debit account tied to your Bison Card. With no finance charge, no service charge, no charges of any kind, this is not only a service but a benefit. Use it on your purchases at all of NDSU Dining Services' operations, the NDSU Bookstore, Herd Shop, Copy Shop, Taco Bell, Wellness Center, NDSU Downtown Campus and ITS Laser Output.

• Getting low on your printing funds? Add Bison Bucks to make certain you can always get what you need. Add Funds on Blackboard.
• Also, with your Bison Bucks account you can purchase pop at select vending machines on campus.
• Copiers in select locations, such as the library, accept Bison Bucks.

Make your Bison Card a U.S. Bank ATM Card. For more information see USBank.com/ndsu

> Make an Online Deposit

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