Desktop Computer Replacement Program for Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty

With funding from the Dean of Arts and Sciences, our department has initiated a program that will allow us to provide each of our tenured and tenure-track faculty members with a standard desktop computer. More information about the program is given below.

The computers are available to tenured and tenure-track faculty only. These faculty members need computers to perform their assigned academic and administrative duties. Grant-funded computers cannot be used for this, under the terms of the federal Cost Accounting Standards (CAS).

You will be able to choose one of three computer configurations:

Windows	Linux	Mac
Windows 7 MS Office Quad-core/8-thread 3+GHz processor 8 GB Memory 500 GB Hard Disk DVD+/-RW 24-inch Wide-screen Display Keyboard Mouse	CentOS 6 Linux Quad-core/8-thread 3+GHz processor 8 GB Memory 500 GB Hard Disk DVD+/-RW 24-inch Wide-screen Display Keyboard Mouse	21.5-inch iMac Mac OS X MS Office Quad-core 2.7GHz processor 8 GB Memory 1 TB Hard Disk Keyboard Mouse

If you choose to accept one of these standard computers, you must agree to the terms and conditions spelled out in our new "Tenured/Tenure-Track Desktop Computer Support Policy". This policy makes some long-needed changes in our department's computer support philosphy. In particular, only two types of computer support will be available for your academic and administrative computing needs:

Option 1:
   You may choose to accept a computer like those described
   above.  Under this option, your desktop computer and support
   for your academic and administrative computing needs will be
   provided at no charge.

Option 2:
   If you do not choose to accept one of these computers,
   the time and materials necessary to support your academic and
   administrative computing needs will be charged to your 
   overhead account (or another eligible funding source) after 
   the standard computers have been deployed.

The new computer support policy for tenured/tenure-track faculty desktop computers is given here:

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/compfac/policy/CSP.100-2006.1.3.html

The three computer configurations above correspond to the standard computers described in section II(A) of the policy. If you do not choose to accept such a computer, your desktop computer will be covered by section III of the policy ("Alternative Computers and Services").

We believe that these new standardized computers will help us improve the quality of our computer support. We hope all eligible faculty will take advantage of this opportunity.