Campuswide Identification

Welcome to the CWID web site. This site has been posted to provide members of the Cal State Fullerton community with information about the Campus-Wide ID project.

At the end of December 2003, the university launched Phase 1 of a multi-stage implementation of new practices for the collection, maintenance and dissemination of Social Security Numbers (SSNs) in order to protect the privacy and legal rights of its students, faculty and staff. SSNs are highly confidential and legally protected data. As an alternate to the SSN, the university has created a unique ID number for each member of the campus community.

This means that Social Security Numbers (SSNs) will no longer appear on most SIS+ screens; they will be replaced with a nine digit campus-wide ID. Only those persons authorized to access SSN will have permission to those SIS+ screens where SSN is available.

Impact on Faculty/Staff

SIS+ users may continue to search for student records using an SSN, but a campus-wide ID number will display in place of the SSN in the student record.

For more information: Faculty | Staff | Alumni

Impact on Students

In addition to their new campus-wide ID, students may continue to use their SSN to access TITAN Online, the student portal, and telephone registration. The telephone fee payment process requires campus-wide ID.

For more information on this project, including relevant laws, please go to the CWID article in the October 2003 IT Download).