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There's Safety in Numbers

Introducing the New



TUid!


In order to protect the privacy of your Social Security number (SSN), Temple is assigning you a unique Temple University identification number.  Your newTUid will become Temple's primary way of identifying you.  With this new ID in place, your Social Security number will no longer be required for routine administrative functions except those required by law, including tax purposes.  The new TUid will be printed on new Temple ID cards that will be distrbuted to all students, faculty and staff.

Please visit this site frequently and follow our progress towards our goal of maintaining a unique, non Social Security Number identifier for all Temple related individuals.

PROJECT UPDATE – July 3, 2005

TUid and New OWLcard now Active!

OWLnet is now available for Summer 2 registration!


At 3:00 P.M. on Saturday afternoon, July 2, 2005, the Temple University Identification Number (TUid) and new OWLcard became active. The TUid is a unique nine-digit number that Temple will use as the primary way to identify you. Now, you will no longer be required to provide your Social Security number for routine administrative processes except for those required by law, such as financial aid, benefits, and tax related functions.

Effective immediately, you must use your OWLcard to gain entrance to parking lots, make purchases with Diamond Dollars, borrow library books, and gain entrance to secured doors protected with a card swipe. Your old Temple ID is no longer valid and you should destroy it as soon as possible. Faculty and staff members should have obtained their OWLcards from their individual departments. Students can pick up their cards from the locations listed on the Student OWLcard Distribution Web page.

Project Announcements:

06/29/05 -

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06/24/05 -

ISIS, HRS, OWLnet, OWLink, Employee Self Service, Focus/Web Focus and ViewPrint Reporting will be unavailable beginning 1 PM on Friday, July 1 until 6 AM on Tuesday, July 5.
This outage is required so that Temple University can migrate to the new TUid.


06/03/05 -

Get Ready for Your New OWLcard!
As part of the Social Security number to TUid implementation process, each Temple student, faculty, and staff member will receive a new Temple ID card called the OWLcard. Temple's new OWLcards will be distributed starting on June 15. Faculty and staff will receive their new cards in June from their individual departments. Students will be able to pick up their cards from the locations listed on the Student OWLcard Distribution Web page.

 


Be sure to mark your calendars for July 5, since this is the day that all new OWLcards are scheduled for activation. On July 5, current Temple ID cards will no longer work for access privileges and Diamond Dollars. That means you must begin using your new OWLcard. It a good idea, however, to carry both your old ID card and new OWLcard on July 5th in the unlikely event that the conversion needs to be postponed.

 


For more detailed information on the OWLcard, please see the FAQs on this site.

   

03/21/05 -

The first process in preparation for our July migration from using the SSN to the TUid as the primary identifier in our computer systems occurred on March 20 when Computer Services ran a series of processes that combined ISIS employee and student records so that there is only one record per person.

 


This resulted in a change for those people who add students to ISIS via the G1 screen - but only for students who are or have been employees (between 1983 and today) of the University. For such students, when the SNG1 transaction is entered with the person's SSN as the key, the employee's name and possibly some other fields on the G1 screen will be returned. Normal procedures should be followed to finish adding the student record to ISIS.

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