What's your number?
Students at Guilford County's many institutions of higher learning may have another number to remember if a bill, HB 387, becomes law. It passed the N.C. House Tuesday afternoon and is expected to cruise on through the Senate. The change would take effect in the Fall 2007 semester.
So why stop using the federally issued 9-didget numbers to identify students? Class? Anyone? Bueller?
Well, one of the big reasons is to curb identity theft. Student ID numbers are used in a number of places - like identification cards that can go missing - increasing the chance they could fall into the wrong hands and exposing the students in question to trouble with crooks.
So for all you students out there: Can you handle one more number? Do you think this change is needed? Is your student ID number something different from your SSN already? Take me to school via the comments or e-mail links below.
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As a graduate of a school that didn't use SSN's for ID numbers, I would say that it wasn't much of an inconvenience. You use the numbers so much that you become very attached to them. It's been almost two years and I didn't even have to look at my old ID to remember 775861.
The University of Missouri used ascending numbers, so it was easy to figure out how long someone had been around based on what their number was, especially graduate assistants.
Posted on April 26, 2005 5:32 PM