In Monsignor Sheeran's charge to the University Sustainability committee this past year, he asked the University community to determine ways to become better stewards of the Earth and the resources at our disposal. As a response to this charge the Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable created a committee on digital sustainability, charged with determining how technology can be used to conserve energy and limit waste. To date printing has been free and unlimited to students and we have printed 3 million pages in the last academic year alone. The current printing policy promotes excessive consumption of resources and a mind-set incompatible with the University's goals of conservation and sustainability.
The Digital Sustainability committee, chaired by Richard Stern and Michael Taylor, faculty in the University Library and in the deaprtment of Political Science, with the support of the Faculty Senate IT Committee, has recommended that the University alter its printing policy to reduce unnecessary printing by limiting the amount of free printing available in the computer labs and the University Library and by encouraging the use of digital alternatives where appropriate.
In accordance with this recommendation, beginning August 31, 2009 full-time students on the South Orange campus will be allotted 400 pages and part-time students will be allotted 200 pages, per semester, at no charge. Printing above this amount will result in a charge of $0.05/page that will be deducted from the student?s Pirates Gold account.
For frequently asked questions about printing on campus please click here.
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