Several schools may elect to keep their students and faculty current due to the rapid change in technology. A process should be in place to refresh the technology with a fair market value trade-in. For those individuals that lease personal computers, they may request annual or semi-annual technology updates before the end of the lease term and without adjustments in the monthly lease. A formal refresh program should be in place that allows the customer the newest model, as an extension to the existing least agreement, negotiated and determined by the individual client. For those individuals that elect to purchase a bundled ISP service with their personal computer, the manufacturers must provide a preinstalled interface on the system with documentation and access phone numbers that are local to the purchaser.
Agreements are with manufactures.
The USM and its institutions must be notified if a third party reseller is designated by the manufacture to act as their sole representative. USM and participating constituent institutions expect to agree in return with each manufacturer to take actions that will promote the program goals . Support for faculty and staff to use technology in teaching. Also include any and all written agreements with USM that are proposed. The USM team is willing to agree to nondisclosure of proprietary information.