Staff, faculty and retirees who want to trade in their old photo identification cards for new ones — called AggieCards — can get them in a number of convenient ways.

Employees and retirees without campus photo IDs also are welcome to get AggieCards, which are being used on the Davis campus only.

Starting Oct. 11, you can visit the new AggieCard office in the Memorial Union. Or, better yet, you can attend one of several AggieCard events around campus starting Oct. 13.

AggieCards are required for students, as of fall quarter, and optional for most faculty and staff. (Some employees do not have an option because they use their ID cards for electronic access through security doors.)

As an employee or retiree, you can also use your AggieCard as a library card; you can load it with Aggie Cash, for food purchases on and off campus; you can use it to cash checks at the Cashier’s Office; and you can use it as a U.S. Bank ATM card and-or debit card.

The bank feature is new, the result of a financial arrangement between the university and U.S. Bank. Under the deal, the bank recently opened a branch office in the Memorial Union and put in six automated teller machines on campus.

For all this (and to have its logo on the back of every AggieCard), U.S. Bank is paying UC Davis from $130,000 to $780,000 a year based on the number of bank accounts linked to the cards; the university and the bank estimate an average annual payment of $280,000 over the 10-year life of the agreement.

To accommodate students who still need cards, and employees who would like them, the university has opened the AggieCard office across from the information counter in the MU’s east wing.

This is the place to go for original cards or replacement cards, for students and employees. Office hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

To head off the possibility of hundreds of employees descending on the tiny office all at once, Accounting and Financial Services will take its “show on the road,” so to speak — bringing the new AggieCards to where you work or nearby. (A separate AggieCard event has been scheduled for retirees; see the details below.)

Here is the schedule for active employees:

• Oct. 13 — Conference room, South Silo, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

• Oct. 15 — Lobby, Activities and Recreation Center, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

• Oct. 18 — 63 Mrak Hall (basement), 8:30-10:30 a.m.

• Oct. 21 — 1225 Dutton Hall, 1-3:30 p.m.

• Oct. 22 — Lobby, ARC, 2:30-4 p.m.

• Oct. 25 — Conference room, first floor, Shields Library, 8:30-11:30 a.m.

• Oct. 26 — Conference room, South Silo, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

• Oct. 29 — Second floor, Plant and Environmental Sciences Building, 9-11 a.m.

In addition, at the request of individual departments and units, the AggieCard staff will make field trips to distribute 25 or more cards per visit. To schedule an AggieCard event for your department or unit, send an e-mail to employeeid@ucdavis.edu; be sure to include the possible dates and times as well as approximate number of employees for your department’s event.

Employees need not have new pictures taken for their AggieCards — so long as the university has your ID photo on file. However, the AggieCard staff will be more than happy to take a new photo.

Cards for retirees

Retirees are invited to obtain AggieCards from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Oct. 18 in advance of a joint meeting of the Emeriti and Retirees associations. The meeting is set to take place in Ballroom A at the Activities and Recreation Center, and the AggieCard event will take place inside the ARC’s north entrance, near Ballroom A.

This event is for people who already have retiree photo ID cards (which you will exchange for AggieCards) or for people who are receiving retiree photo ID cards for the first time (in which case your first card will be an AggieCard).

If you do not have a retiree photo ID card, bring your temporary, pink retiree ID card, which you should already have received from Human Resources. If you do not have a temporary ID, contact the benefits office on your home campus: Davis (530) 752-1774, or Sacramento (916) 734-2362.

Retirees who are unable to attend the Oct. 18 event are welcome to visit the AggieCard office in the MU.

More information

AggieCard website (including FAQ) for employees and retirees

Telephone: (530) 754-7766

E-mail: employeeid@ucdavis.edu

Earlier coverage: “AggieCards make their debut, along with bank branch” (Aug. 6, 2010)

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