Travel and other forms that have to be filled in by hand or typewriter and sent through campus mail should be supplemented with electronic versions that are computer editable and emailable. Minutes of meetings should be on the web. Improved web site design will facilitate use of SWT webpages. This is not cheap. We need maintenance and repair services.
More computers mean more business for the repair shop.
We need a systematic replacement program. A regular schedule allows departments to plan replacements. It may be the case that older equipment can be used in certain applications on campus to reduce equipment costs. However, regular replacement reduces the incidence of maintenance and repair requests and reduces the variety of hardware and software that must cared for. Also, older machines are slower, eventually fail to run current software, and are hard to interface with other equipment.