All rights reserved. Technology services do come with a cost, though. The necessary equipment needed to modernize, or in some cases update areas of the campus, is being funded by the technology fee. The money generated from the technology fee is controlled by the Technology Appropriations Board.
TAB is composed of students, faculty and administrators.
Each department must submit a request to receive funds generated by the technology fee. It takes about a month for all the requests to be discussed, then a team goes out to the site to evaluate the request which takes another month. We're in charge of investigating the requests made by departments for tech money. Long term capital projects, such as wiring all the dorms to allow for Internet access, is paid for with bonded money. In many cases they paid for additional costs, allowing TAB to focus on any needed equipment.