Boston College Information Technology Services (ITS) is open to creating virtual Eagle IDs, student senator Cece Mase shared at the UGBC Senate meeting Tuesday night.
“They’re very on board with it,” said Mase, MCAS ’26.
According to Mase, ITS had been hesitant to adopt virtual Eagle IDs due to safety concerns. After seeing how Clemson University—where she previously attended—utilizes virtual ID for students, ITS is planning to schedule a meeting with Clemson’s IT department to gather more information and move forward with implementing Eagle IDs, she shared.
“I touched on the idea, which I think is kind of where they responded to it was the safety aspect of it,” Mase said. “Just like how you’ll never have an issue with it, because you’ll always have that in your phone, even when it’s dead.”
ITS is also looking into providing students with access to Canva Pro, Mase added.
“They really like the idea of Canva Pro for business majors, marketing, and things like campaigning,” Mase said. “They said they were meeting with the Canva sales team—I think they’re doing that before we meet with them next month.”
Earlier in the meeting, BC Career Center staff gave a presentation on its resources and asked how it can more effectively engage students.
Student senators suggested various ideas for the Career Center to consider.
Lowana Casimir, MCAS ’26, emphasized the importance of organizing drop-in events at the beginning of the year, when students are looking to get to know what resources BC offers them.
“To help with the fact that people don’t know where the Career Center is, having a pizza night, or a resume-making, or some sort of social situation so that we can get to know the various people that work at the Career Center,” Casimir said.
Jordan Doty, student senator and MCAS ’28, recounted finding the process of navigating Handshake to schedule a meeting at the Career Center confusing, suggesting that the Career Center assist students in setting up their Handshake accounts during in-person meetings.
“The process of making a Handshake account to set up that first meeting was a little confusing,” Doty said. “I definitely could see students getting to that roadblock of setting up an account and then being like, ‘Oh, well I don’t want to go.’”
Aidan Krush, student senator and CSOM ’27, then recapped his meeting with Jason Blanchette, assistant director of marketing and fan engagement about potentially creating a “virtual passport” that would track students’ attendance at games and encourage them to attend games across different sports.
“Jason was very open to the idea and very open to working with UGBC in the future as a possible outlet for student input, planning things like themes at games, stuff like that,” Krush said.
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