Access control
Many departments and facilities on campus use card readers on doors, turnstiles, and elevators to control access to buildings and rooms. Card readers include the familiar "swipe" type as well as proximity readers.
All newly-issued ID cards contain a special sensor that can be picked up by a proximity reader, providing faster access and meeting the needs of disabled students, faculty, and staff.
Access can be restricted by day of the week and time of day, and can be set up to provide access on an individual basis, or by department or class list.
Privileges/entitlement
- The Campus Card doubles as your library card. You must present your card when checking out books.
- Vaden Health Center uses the Campus Card to verify health plan service levels.
- The StanfordCardPlan allows students to charge up to $1,000 per quarter at the Stanford Bookstore and other on-campus locations. The charges are added directly to your University bill. To participate in the StanfordCardPlan, students must sign up in Axess.
- The StanfordCardPlan for faculty and staff is a copy- and print-only debit plan. Faculty and staff can deposit funds to the plan via cash-to-card machines.
- The Cardinal Dollars program is available to faculty and staff as well as students. Cardinal Dollars are prepaid dining dollars used only at Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE) dining locations, and retail locations.
Residence hall meals
When you live on campus in a University-managed residence, your Campus Card doubles as your meal or dining card. You can supplement the number of meals allotted under your dining plan with the purchase of additional Cardinal Dollars. Cardinal Dollars can only be used in residence dining facilities and expire at the end of the regular academic year.
See the Dining Services Meal Plan web page for more information on Cardinal Dollars and meal plan options.
Campus cafes
Students participating in the StanfordCardPlan can use their Campus Card instead of cash to purchase food at a number of locations around campus.
See the Fingate page for locations accepting the StanfordCardPlan as a payment method.
Copying and printing
Self-service photocopy machines and printers are available in Stanford University libraries and computing labs. For students, the copiers and printers accept the StanfordCardPlan. If you are a student, you are encouraged to reserve a sufficient amount of credit on the plan for printing and copying.
Cash cards are also available at cash-to-card machines located around campus. You can use these cards at copiers or at printers equipped with release stations (computers displaying print queues). Many printers in the central and branch libraries have release stations.
Cash-to-Card machines
Cash-to-Card machines are located at:
- Tresidder Union Computer Lair, second floor lobby
- Green East Library, opposite privileges desk
- Meyer Library, first floor by staircase
- Lane Medical Library, lobby
- Sloan Library, fourth Floor at Math department
- Swain Chemistry Library, by sign-in desk
- Engineering Library, Huang Engineering Center, third floor
Other campus retail
See the Fingate page for locations accepting the StanfordCardPlan as a payment method.
