Key & Card Access

Cards have an expiration date, they can also become damaged. This may be the reason your card is no longer working. Your access level might have passed its due date. You can call 218.477.2925 to check. If your card has expired, you will need to get a new one at IT. If your card does not carry the access level you can request access through our online form. This can be accessed by your administrative assistant, chair or dean of the respective department.

Your card is not working. Call 218.477.2925 for your card to be checked.

Cards can expire or become damaged. Call 218.477.2925 for your card to be checked.

Contact your professor, dean, chair or director to request access for you.

Contact Sodexo at 218.477.2836. We only deal with the access levels of your card.

Keys must be requested through the online key request form. This can be accessed by your administrative assistant, chair or dean of the respective department. Email and phone calls will not be an acceptable means to request keys.

Once the request has been completed, an email will be sent to the key holder letting them know when the keys are ready to be picked up. All keys and access devices must be signed for and picked up by the person receiving them. Access devices can be picked up at the Public Safety building at any time. Requested keys are held for 30 days. If not picked up they are returned to the inventory.

Authorization

• Faculty – The department dean, director, chair or designee must request permissions for the key(s) that are to be administered and/or card access allowed into room, and/or through the outer doors of buildings.
• Staff – The department dean, director, chair, supervisor or their designee must request permission for departmental staff. If you do not work with a department chair or administrative assistant, key and card access permissions will be accepted from the following persons:
• University president
• Vice presidents
• Biosciences or Chemistry department chair (for labs)
• Radiation safety officer (for Biochemistry and Chemistry biohazard labs)
• Students – Faculty and staff should submit their requests via online form to the department authorized access approver, who will forward the approved requests to the Key and Card Access Office. Class lists in Excel or similar format, signed by the instructor and approved by the department chair are accepted in email form.
• Vendors or Contractors – All keys or card access issued to vendors or contractors will be cleared through the Physical Plant manager, director, chief engineer of the Heating Plant, director of the Student Union, or vice president of Finance and Administration (respective to each individual’s purview). Key access for the residence halls must be cleared through the director of housing or their designee and obtained at the Housing Office.

The Key and Card Access office is located in the Public Safety building on campus, 1616 9th Ave South. Keys can be picked up at any time.

Key and card access shall be issued for the shortest amount of time, as deemed necessary by the department dean, director, chair or designee.

All faculty, staff and students have a due date on their keys. For faculty and staff it is a way for the key office to inventory issued keys and for faculty/staff to evaluate if their keys are still needed and a reminder of what they have on their record with us. Often keys issued to students are for a specific class and need to be returned when the class has ended.

Before the due date approaches the key holder will receive a courtesy email reminding them of the approaching due date. At this time they are responsible to request an extension on the due date.

Requests can be directed toward your professor/or otherwise suited faculty.

If the due date passes without keys returned or an extension request sent a late/lost fine of $30 per key is applied to your student account. Key fines may be appealed via the online form.

If campus keys are missing/stolen/lost, you must inform the Public Safety office immediately.

Failure to return keys or other access devices will require a late/lost fee of $30 per device to MSUM. Access devices will not be issued until outstanding fines have been paid. Key fines may be appealed through the online form.

If the keys are later found and returned in working condition, the fine will be credited.

Fines are applied to student accounts at MSUM Business Services if keys are late or lost. To appeal a fine you must fill out the online Key Fine Appeal form.

If a key does not open the door you need to wiggle it in the lock. If there is an issue with the key, contact the key office at 218.477.2925.

Public Safety has an after-hours drop box in the entryway of our building. If you need to return a key after business hours, place the key in a MSUM envelope (located at drop box). Write your name and Dragon ID on the envelope and drop in the box. The key will be credited to your account on the following business day.

No. Our records will reflect that you are holding the key. Any discrepancies with the key will be your responsibility, which includes all fines. Keys must be returned to our office before they can be issued to another individual.

No. If this individual was allowed to be in this room, they would have their own key.