Students, faculty and staff at the Georgetown University Law Center have begun to receive the Georgetown One Card (GOCard). The GOCard replaces various cards used for identification, building access, ATM use, photocopying, vending machine purchaes, on campus retail outlets such as the bookstore and other University services.
Each GOCard has a personalized picture, a magnetic stripe used for entering campus buildings and a 16-digit number making the GOCard accessible at the Georgetown University Federal Credit Union.
According to Larry Dupuis, the project manager for GOCard implementation, the program has been very successful. Dupuis said that the GOCard will eventually be only the means of using copying services and dining hall meal plans.
The majority of law students, Dupuis said, received their GOCard in the first week of the program.
The card was initially installed at the Law Center because it only has four buildings, versus the 36 buildings that would need to be connected on the Main and Medical Campuses, Dupuis said.
The Main Campus should be ready for GOCard implementation sometime in the spring semester. According to Dupuis, implementing the GOCard on the Main Campus is a large and complex process.
“Part of the challenge is to schedule the work that needs to be done so that it is not disruptive for classes, events, exams, meals and normal sleeping hours,” Dupuis said,
Three hundred and fifty card swipes will be installed all around campus, beginning with popular locations such as the dining halls, the Leavey Center, Yates Field House and the Main Campus Libraries.
