Technology Services provides baseline recommendations on technology equipment on campus, including computer workstations, faculty laptops, and smart classroom equipment.
Current campus standards can be found here.
The College and Divisional Support Committee in coordination with Deans have decided to adopt best practices for purchasing technology in order to realize the best value for computer purchases and support for end-users. It was agreed that all technology purchases must be made in consultation with your IT Liaison. By purchasing from the list of standard equipment your college will receive better pricing, fastest support and higher reliability. The IT Liaison will advise you with the appropriate solution to your technology needs and assist in the processing of the request.
Technology purchases include computer, printer, projectors and audio/video equipment.
Benefits of Standard Configuration
- Saves your department, college and the campus money.
- Fastest processing on purchases from the standard list when approved by IT Liaison.
- Improves your computing reliability because purchasing from the standard list gives you a premium grade computer.
- Discounted pricing is kept up-to-date throughout the year.
- Warranty – at least 3 years is included.
- CSU/UC standard configurations with Dell allows our campus to receive a great discount.
- Grant purchases can also use this process and receive the benefits.
- Computer technicians on campus are Dell certified and can help to make repairs quicker, which results in less down time.
As we work together to move towards standard configurations for hardware purchases, we will be reducing costs and increasing the savings for our colleges. We can increase our staff’s capacity to provide valuable support to end-users if we manage the overall demand for desktop support services and lower the cost to support each computer.