Proposal

Narrative

The UCEW provides writing support services for all students, faculty, and staff across all levels of FAU. We offer face-to-face and online appointments using a web-based scheduling system. 2/3rds of our appointments are conducted online using an interface built into our scheduling system. The writing center typically hires 30-35 consultants a term. We are open seven days a week, typically 12 hours a day. All except 3 of our consultants meet in our centers on campus for their 10 hours a week. The UCEW computers are utilized for nearly every session we hold. While there are typically three thousand unique students served a year, we typically provide 9000 consultation sessions a year. The last time we updated our computers was in 2017. We are way past due to replace them. They are starting to fail and function slowly. We typically use them primarily for online consultations and standard university software like MSWord and PowerPoint. We need machines that have touchscreen capability, built-in cameras, and sufficient memory to enable several years of updates. We do not typically install non-standard software on our center machines except for the one machine in the center that has accessibility software

Facilities

No renovations necessary

Hardware Requirements

OptiPlex 7400 AIO

Software Requirements

standard university software suite Mostly web-based work and Microsoft apps

Personnel Costs

none

Other Costs

none

Timeline

Replace the current machines when possible, ideally before next term.

Sustainability

We replace our machines whenever they no longer serve our needs. This previous period was 5.5 years.

Resource Matching

none

Implementing Organization

UCEW within Center for Teaching and Learning