EHHS IT Services
Street Address
209 White Hall, Kent, OH 44242Mailing Address
800 E. Summit St.Kent, OH 44242
Currently, all EHHS full-time tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members at the Kent campus are covered.
Computers provided under the Faculty Computer Refresh Program are currently replaced every four years. Due to the onset of the Pandemic in 2019-2020, the Refresh Project was put on hold for over a year, until it was resumed in 2021. This delay affected all cycles, effectively pushing back when faculty would be eligible to receive their new device. If you would like to find out when you are eligible next, contact Patrick McCartney at pmccartn@kent.edu.
Information Services selects a number of Dell, Apple and Microsoft devices with technical specs that cover the widest range of needs and will stay functional for the four-year life. You may choose one of those standard computers, or if none of the standard computers meet your needs, you can request a non-standard device (with additional costs associated). Because models change so frequently, the current list of standard devices will be provided once you are contacted by your local IT person during your eligibility cycle.
Standard model computers allow us to both negotiate better pricing and provide consistency across the campus. It also provides us the ability to have trained professionals who can better assist you with your computing needs.
No. Refresh computers are provided for use by the eligible faculty members. Once you receive your new Faculty Refresh device, your old device will be collected by EHHS IT, scrubbed, and then repurposed.
Unfortunately, the answer to this is NO. The purpose of the computer refresh program is to replace the computers before the technology becomes obsolete.
Existing machines stay in the academic unit. Chairs and directors must make every effort to sustain a supportive, professional environment for all who engage in scholarship and teaching in the department or school. Thus, chairs and directors should pass on existing machines to graduate students and part-time faculty who are not eligible for new machines in the refresh program. Further, the issuance of a Refresh machine should not be used to provide an individual faculty member with two machines.
No. University policy dictates that equipment must be made available for use by other departments within the University.
Contact the Faculty Computer Refresh Group at facultyrefresh@kent.edu or Patrick McCartney at pmccartn@kent.edu.
