To: Deans, Directors and Budget Unit Heads
From: Larry Brandolph, Interim Chief Information Officer
Subject: Temple University Electronic Equipment Return Guidelines
This is a reminder that all electronic equipment purchased with university or research funds and that is no longer in use, still belongs to the university and/or the grant funder and needs to be secured properly, inventoried and surplused. Examples include computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, monitors.
When an employee in your department leaves the university, your department is responsible for ensuring that their Temple-owned equipment is returned (view Employee Manual section 14.9 Exit Process). For grant-funded equipment in use by a departing employee, the disposal process and/or subsequent ownership of the equipment is specified within the terms of the grant.
If the equipment meets the support requirements of your IT staff (view Information Technology Services' requirements ) and barring any grant restrictions, your department is free to redeploy it internally. When your department no longer needs the equipment, however, Temple requires that you schedule a pickup with the Computer Recycling Center (CRC). Electronic equipment shall not be sold or given to departing employees by individual operating departments outside of the central CRC process.
The CRC ensures that equipment is disposed of in a uniform manner and that all software licensing and data security protocols are followed. The CRC then refurbishes the equipment, if possible, and makes it available to students, faculty, or staff at reduced prices via the Surplus Electronics webstore .
To learn more about the surplus process at Temple, please see:
Temple Operations Temple Surplus Page
Temple University Surplus Property Policy
Technology and Software Usage
Questions?
Please contact the Help Desk at tuhelp.temple.edu (click Chat or Request Help) or call 215-204-8000.