A top-down directive to faculty makes them bristle. Paul A Don t need labs if student with a computer can access my server. I teach statistics. We are involved in using different graphics to visual data. We don t have that capability in the present labs.
Students can t plug in.
The issue of what equipment is allowed . We can t have a support service making academic decisions about how we manage or deliver our instructions. When one of my colleagues is told they can t use a software, that builds animosity. This has existed for some time. Roy Discipline-specific has to keep being justified.