As is the case with all Penn State units, we must operate within our budgetary constraints. Additionally, software packages must be legally licensed and supportable in our distributed environment. Within those constraints we will select and deploy software that provides the maximum benefit to faculty and students who use our facilities. In addition to purchasing and installing general purpose, multi-curriculum applications, we provide space on our file servers for software, assignments and course materials provided by instructors for their specific courses. We require a two week notice to pre-load packages for instructors, and require proof of legal license before we deploy proprietary software.
Space thus allocated is available to all systems in our labs and technology classrooms.
Each year at the end of May the servers will be purged of instructor files unless we receive prior notice that specific files need to be kept. This page was last updated on Monday, March 26, 2001. See our list of contacts.