As the name implies, the department concentrates its focus on serving people and meeting their computing and information technology needs. The Computing Services Department vision, goals and polices are set using a team-oriented approach seeking input and advice from the computing staff, as well as the Academic Resources Committee and the Administrative Computing Task Force. The vision for the department is based on the following assumptions. If properly implemented, the network will provide easy access from every dorm room and office to every information technology service available both on campus and world-wide. Both yearly goals and five-year goals are established and yearly evaluations are performmed to assess their effectiveness.
Budgets are also prepared yearly with separate budgets for administrative and academic computing.