02-25-2022, 11:10 AM
About 20 years ago our college IT department decided to basically lock down faculty computers with a program that I think is called Deep Freeze. A group of us wrote a new policy regarding what IT could and couldn't do with faculty computers and we also wrote a policy that established the, "IT Oversight Committee" composed of a majority of faculty along with the director of IT and a couple of his minions. We brought it to a faculty meeting and it passed overwhelmingly and was put in place. The IT director hated us through the rest of his career but it did stop cold most of the shenanigans that occur at other places. The only reason we could do this was because our statutes say that faculty determine the rules of the institution that impact teaching and research.