Beginning Monday, the University plans to rollout its new GWorld program – dubbed GWorld 2.0 – according to a news release sent today.

The new cards will include a tap-and-enter system – like the system used for the Metro SmarTrip – rather than the swiping system for access into buildings and residence halls. There are about 500 readers – the black boxes used to swipe into buildings and make purchases – on campus.

Student will have to replace their horizontal orange cards with the new cards before the University finishes the rollout, but the GWorld Office plans to use Twitter, Facebook and flyers to warn students before that transition is complete.

“After the new system is fully transitioned, you will need a new GWorld card to use your Colonial Cash/Sodexo Dining Dollars and to access campus facilities such as residence halls, libraries, the Lerner Health and Wellness Center, academic buildings after hours, and parking garages,” the release said.

In March,  Ed Schonfeld, senior associate vice president for administration, said the new cards will help enhance security on campus with an embedded “antenna” much like the one used for Metro’s SmarTrip cards.

The new cards will be exchanged free of charge, but the University will require cardholders to take a new photograph.

The redesign features a larger photo, a hologram, a new randomly generated card number, a user classification – alumni, student, faculty or staff – and an expiration date. Unlike the orange GWorld cards, the GWorld 2.0 cards are vertical and feature a GW flag, hologram crest and buff and blue tones.