NACCU Governance
NACCU Finances
NACCU History
NACCU Programs and Resources
NACCU Volunteers
Terminology
Notable Alumni at Member Schools
School Mascots
100
This person most recently served a second one-year term as the chief elected officer of NACCU.
Who is Janet Rauhe?
100
Annually, this is the month the NACCU Board will review Budget Assumptions and drafts for the coming year.
What is March?
100
How many women currently serve on the NACCU Board of Directors
What is five?
100
This program was held for the second time in October to provide corporate members opportunities to present product information to school members.
What is NACCU Vendor Demo Day?
100
2026 Conference Committee Chair
Who is Richard Tamborelli?
100
A cardholder account containing a pre-deposited amount of funds that declines as the card is used to purchase goods and services.
What is Declining Balance Account?
100
Tom Brady, former NFL quarterback
James Earl Jones, actor
John DeLorean, automobile engineer
What is University of Michigan?
100
Big Al
What is The University of Alabama?
200
According to the NACCU Bylaws, these are the currently recognized Officers of NACCU.
What are the President, President-Elect, Past President, Treasurer and Secretary?
200
NACCU collects renewals beginning in May each year, but because we follow this accounting process, the renewals are not reflected on the books until July 1.
What is accrual basis accounting?
200
Loyola College, Duke University, SUNY Geneseo, Florida State University
Who are the founding members of NACCU?
200
This new initiative is a short-term, high-impact networking program designed to help school members at every stage of their career build meaningful professional connections within the NACCU community
What is NACCU LinkUp?
200
This committee is currently led by Nicole Camacho.
What is the Volunteer Development Committee?
200
The process of using an algorithm to transform information from plain text to a format that is readable only by someone possessing a key or password.
What is encryption?
200
Brittany Mahomes, co-owner of Kansas City NWSL
Bryan Hughes, member of Texas House of Rep
Brandon Rhyder - Texas Country/Red Dirt sinder
What is University of Texas at Tyler?
200
Cocky
What is University of South Carolina?
300
Should the NACCU President be unable to fulfill their duties during the year, this role assumes the President's role per bylaws.
What is the Past President?
300
This is the NACCU auditing firm
What is Metz & Associates?
300
This first NACCU President who hailed from Loyola College served for three years in the role.
Who is J. Paul Melanson?
300
Paul Bower, Michelle Dietz, Kyle Harris, Brista Hurst-Kent, Titus Johnson, Nicole Kerns, Tim Reardanz, Andrew Treu
Who are the members in LEAP this year?
300
Scott Brannan was the first recognized with this award
What is the NACCU Outstanding Volunteer Award?
300
A link, consisting of both software and hardware components, that makes possible the exchange of information between two disparate systems.
What is interface?
300
JK Simmons, actor
Carroll O'Connor, actor
Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to US Congress
What is University of Montana?
300
Swoop
What is University of Texas at Tyler?
400
This is the living document where Bylaws, policies and procedures live.
What are NACCU Governing Documents?
400
The NACCU Board just hears an audit presentation annually in the fall. This is the desired outcome of each draft.
An unqualified opinion
400
Unofficial location of NACCU before Phoenix, Arizona.
What is Troy, Alabama?
400
Started in fall 2019, these smaller, local programs were to create educational and networking opportunities for members that do not get to travel to the annual conference.
What is NACCU Near You?
400
These members are facilitating the next NACCU NetworX for Two-Year Colleges.
Who are Chelsea Gonzales and Ryan Harms?
400
A smaller version of the original photo image on an ID card that is generally printed semi-translucent.
What is ghost image?
400
John Wayne, actor
Neil Armstrong, astronaut
Allyson Felix, Olympic sprinter
What is University of Southern California?
400
D'artagnan
What is Xavier University?
500
This group "shall consist of not fewer than five (5) and not more than nine (9) members, which number may be increased or decreased pursuant to these Bylaws."
What is the NACCU Board of Directors?
500
This group of volunteers oversees the reserves fund that is deposited with Foundation Wealth Advisors.
What is the Investment Committee?
500
Name and school of current NACCU president
Kim Pfeffer, Emory University
500
When NACCU Board and Staff add on visits with members or host social events when attending other business meetings, we call it this.
What is Boots on the Ground?
500
This person leads the Engagement Committee and is from this campus.
Who is Coco Dean from University of California-Irvine?
500
A unit of .001 inch used to specify the thickness of ID card components
What is mil?
500
John Boehner, former Speaker of US House of Rep
Jason Kokrak, professional golfer in LIV League
Tyrone Hill, assistant coach for Atlanta Hawks
What is Xavier University?
500
Brutus Buckeye
What is The Ohio State University?
750
This person is the current President-Elect until the Annual Business Meeting
Who is Joshua Bodnar?
750
This staff member organizes the financial statements.
Who is Crissy Sampier?
750
What is the year and state in which NACCU was founded?
1993 in Maryland
750
This program is the current brand for what we used to call NPI or New Professionals Institute.
What is Industry Essentials Institute, or IEI?
750
This volunteer serves as the Board Liaison to the NACCU Ambassadors
Who is Nathan Gray?
750
A valid six-digit prefix that has been registered with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) per numbering system standards.
What is ISO number?
750
Tony Romo, former NFL quarterback
Kevin Duckworth, former NBA player
Jimmy Liautaud, founder of Jimmy John's
What is Eastern Illinois University?
750
Razor the Shark
What is Nova Southeastern University?
1000
These officer roles are appointed, not elected.
What are the Treasurer and Secretary?
1000
NACCU banking partner
What is Truist?
1000
This campus currently hosts the NACCU listserv
What is James Madison University?
1000
This is the scheduled location for the 2027 NACCU Annual Conference.
What is Chattanooga?
1000
This committee chair hails from Duke University, and this is the committee she leads
Who is Laurie Hyland from the Professional Development Committee?
1000
A set of contactless communication short-range wireless technology protocols that enables two electronic devices to establish secure communications between the devices when brought within centimeters of each other.
What is NFC?
1000
Horace Grant, former NBA player
Nikki Haley, former UN ambassador
Nancy O'Dell, entertainment journalist
What is Clemson University?
1000
Monte
What is the University of Montana?
1500
While this position is noted in our bylaws as an officer, they do not serve on the Executive Committee.
What is secretary?
1500
In order, these two currently serve as NACCU Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer.
Who are Courtney Petrizzi and Kim Wermers?
1500
NACCU complete current address.
What is PO Box 41817, Phoenix, AZ, 85080?
1500
Access Control, Women in Credential Leadership, Two-Year Schools, One-Person Card Offices, IT, Canada
What are the current NACCU Networx?
1500
2027 Conference Committee Chair
Who is Nicole Kerns?
1500
Any variety of ID cards that use radio frequency (RF) to communicate with a card reader and do not have to come in direct physical contact with the reader.
What is a contactless card?
1500
Dr. Will Kirby of Big Brother fame
James Bush III, Florida State Rep 106th district
Keith Sonderling, 38th US Deputy Sec. of Labor
What is Nova Southeastern University?
1500
Oakley
What is Texas Woman's University?
1750
Each year, one name is put forth by the Board of Directors to the membership at the Annual Business Meeting (and through proxy) for this role. According to our bylaws, no write-ins are allowed.
What is NACCU President?
1750
Sponsorships make up $245,000 in our 2025-26 budget. What is the highest sponsorship level you noted on the NACCU website?
What is Zenith?
1750
NACCU was formed by members of this group when their leadership did not see the necessity to have a focus on the campus card technology in the industry.
What is NACAS?
1750
Have a webinar that you did not get to attend? Go check this place to see the video of the event.
What is naccuTV?
1750
This member currently serves as the Investment Committee Chair.
Who is David Anthony from University of Texas?
1750
In some access control systems specific cards can be programmed to perform specific door functions when double swiped (e.g., override the door schedule and manually lock or unlock a door for a period of time).
What is double-swipe?
1750
Ann Rice, renowned author
Sissy Spacek, actor
Alia Moses, chief US District Judge
What is Texas Woman's University?
1750
No mascot, so you get the Wolverine
What is University of Michigan?