Information
Technology Funding Policies
The
College has three funding programs for the support of technology:
Faculty workstation matching funds, administrative workstation
matching funds, and instructional technology funds.
Workstation
Deployment: Faculty Workstation Matching Funds
Faculty
workstations are computers in faculty offices needed by faculty
members to support research, instruction, and administrative work.
Faculty workstation funds may be used to purchase administrative
machines only if the equipment being replaced is not on the obsolete
technology list and is moved to a tenure-track faculty member's
campus office. Faculty workstation funding support is available
only to academic units (units with tenured faculty lines) and
is only available to support the purchase of equipment for full-time
tenured or tenure track faculty. Requests for laptop equipment
or for desktop configurations that are more costly than the standard
configuration provided will require justification from the Chair.
If approved, the College will provide a one-to-one match of funds
used for the purchase of faculty workstations up to a maximum
of $1,500 of College money per machine. Departments may purchase
faculty workstations that cost more than $3,000 but the College
contribution will not exceed $1,500 per machine. The College will
not provide matching funds for more than one computer per faculty
member. The College does not provide matching funds for software
or printers for individual faculty members. Requests for network
printers will be considered. Unit heads are invited to submit
workstation requests each spring, for purchase of equipment for
the following academic year.
Administrative
Workstation Matching Funds
Administrative
workstations are computers in administrative offices that are
used by staff members. For approved requests, the College will
provide a one-to-one match of funds up to a maximum of $1,000
of College money per machine. Departments may purchase administrative
workstations that cost more than $2,000, but the College contribution
will not exceed $1,000 per machine. The College will not provide matching funds for more than one computer per staff member. The College does not provide
matching funds for software. Available funds for administrative
machines are extremely limited. Please consider your requests
carefully. The College may request additional justification for
requests for administrative matching funds on a case-by-case basis.
Unit heads are invited to submit workstation requests each spring,
for purchase of equipment for the following academic year.
Workstation
Deployment: Instructional Technology Funding
Instructional
technology funding is provided to support the use of technology
by students and in instruction. Departments are not required to
provide matching funds in order to receive instructional technology
support. Instructional technology funds only may be used to support
instruction, the development of instructional materials, and the
use of technology by graduate and undergraduate students. Instructional
technology funds may not be used to purchase or upgrade faculty
workstations or for software for installation on faculty machines.
Instructional Technology funds may not be used for furnishings
or renovations. Unit heads are invited to submit workstation requests
each spring, for purchase of equipment for the following academic
year.
Quesions about information technology policies should be directed
to Kathleen
Cavanaugh, Assistant Dean, Academic Technology & Admin Ops (kcav@umd.edu).
