How is it determined which computers are renewed and when?
PC Renewal Guideline
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