How is it determined which computers are renewed and when?

For Staff/Faculty:

• We provide renewal desktop PCs to all full time continuing positions
• We provide new desktop PCs to new full time continuing positions.  For those new staff/faculty that require a laptop, we cover the base amount that would have been allocated to a new PC, and the dept/faculty member covers the difference

    Not covered:

• Part time/term staff
• Contract faculty
• PCs purchased for research (on grants, etc)
• PCs used for specific functions but not allocated to a full time resource (data entry kiosk used by student assistants, a PC used by a department for access to a specific application).
• Some University depts. / schools / affiliations cover their own, including:

    Menno Simons College 

    Collegiate

    PACE

    Partially covered:

• Laptops
• MACs

 

 

For Students:

• We provide renewal desktop PCs to all permanently allocated to teaching space, which includes:

• departmental teaching labs
• smart classrooms

• For those departments requiring upgrades to the base amount provisioned through the PC renewal program, we cover the base amount that would have been allocated to a new PC, and the dept covers the difference
• We also cover 2 open student lab spaces:

• Library reference area
• Uplink student lab

    Not covered:

• departmental student lounges such as Aboriginal Student Lounge, International student services lounge area, indigenous studies lounge area
• other PCs and areas setup by various departments for various reasons (not covered by definitions above) Ex. Community lab in the Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre
• MACs