Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 36.11
Liaison Diane Fout
Submission Date April 23, 2013
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.2

Transylvania University
OP-10: Computer Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 2.00 Jason Whitaker
Vice President for Information & Technology
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Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase EPEAT Silver or higher computers and monitors?:
Yes

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The website URL where the EPEAT policy, directive, or guidelines are posted :
http://www.transy.edu/

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A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :
We do not have an official policy posted toward EPEAT in part because we purchase Dell desktops and laptops through our AIKCU contract and Dell has a high commitment to EPEAT: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/optix/topics/en/optix_energy?c=us&l=en Our standard desktop and laptop models for the last two years have met EPEAT gold standards. Also, we have seen an increase in the number of requests for Apple computers for faculty in the last couple of years, and while Apple has recently been in the news for removing their products from the EPEAT list, the laptop models that we have meet gold, though the desktop models are not listed at all.

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Does the institution wish to pursue points for Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on EPEAT computers)?:
No

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Expenditures on EPEAT Gold desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
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Expenditures on EPEAT Silver desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
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Total expenditures on desktop and laptop computers and monitors :
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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