Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.82
Liaison Ashley Woolman
Submission Date May 16, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Western Colorado University
OP-12: Electronics Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.05 / 1.00 Sherry Ford
Manager, Business Services
Business Services
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Total expenditures on desktop and laptop computers, displays, thin clients, tablets/slates, televisions, and imaging equipment:
223,000 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on EPEAT registered desktop and laptop computers, displays, thin clients, tablets/slates, televisions, and imaging equipment::
Expenditure Per Level
EPEAT Gold 10,000 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Silver 0 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Bronze 5,000 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on electronic products that are EPEAT Gold registered:
4.48

Do the figures reported above include leased equipment?:
No

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn (i.e. one-year time period or representative sample):

one year


The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

-Sherry Ford who is in charge of purchasing
-Western does have electronics purchasing policy/guidelines, to purchase as sustainably as possible.

-EPEAT level electronics for WCU include: Dell OptiPlex 7010 (Gold), Dell Latitude e7440 (Gold), and Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (Bronze)

-No estimates on how much is spent per year on EPEAT-level electronics; spending estimates include infrastructure, routers, back up, printers, internet for dorms, etc.

-Funding= $91,000 for infrastructure and support, faculty/staff hardware supplies, routers, phone, back-up. $64,000 for computing hardware for classrooms only. $68,000 spent last year on open labs (printers, macs, PCs, scanners, internet in dorms, access points)

-Metech Electronic Recycling- incentive to recycle electronics in an environmentally responsible manner approx 4x year


-Sherry Ford who is in charge of purchasing
-Western does have electronics purchasing policy/guidelines, to purchase as sustainably as possible.

-EPEAT level electronics for WCU include: Dell OptiPlex 7010 (Gold), Dell Latitude e7440 (Gold), and Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (Bronze)

-No estimates on how much is spent per year on EPEAT-level electronics; spending estimates include infrastructure, routers, back up, printers, internet for dorms, etc.

-Funding= $91,000 for infrastructure and support, faculty/staff hardware supplies, routers, phone, back-up. $64,000 for computing hardware for classrooms only. $68,000 spent last year on open labs (printers, macs, PCs, scanners, internet in dorms, access points)

-Metech Electronic Recycling- incentive to recycle electronics in an environmentally responsible manner approx 4x year

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