Reports > Strategic Goals & Initiatives for 2008 and Beyond

GOAL 6 - Manage within University Computing budgets, always looking for ways to decrease costs and seek out efficiencies

• Purchase servers, computers, projectors, toner, cables, etc. in bulk
• Coolaborate, when appropriate, with sister universities and System Office to bundle purchases and write RFPs so that they can be used by all agencies
• Explore with career development the establishment of student internships
• Continue researching and implementing virtualization
• Explore the use of open source software
• Keep instructional technologist position vacant for FY08