General Access Labs are created:
The General Access Labs are supported and maintained primarily by
student computer service fees and are available for use by current UNT
students in support of their academic programs. A valid UNT ID is
required for admission into any General Access Lab.
Use by UNT faculty and staff will be accommodated on a
space-available basis. A valid UNT ID is required for admission into any
General Access Lab.
All others desiring use of General Access Labs should direct
requests to the appropriate College Lab Coordinator.
General Access Labs should be open a minimum of 85 hours a week.
Exact hours will be reflected in the current semester's General
Access Labs brochure.
Hours for the upcoming semester will be determined by midterm of the
current semester.
General Access Labs will be open on all days that classes are held.
Early closings (such as the day before Spring Break, Thanksgiving, etc.)
and holiday hours (such as during Spring Break) must be posted at least
one week in advance.
Reservations for orientations, workshops, hands-on demonstrations, etc.
In general, orientations, workshops, demonstrations, etc. held in
the General Access Labs are discouraged after the first few weeks of the
semester due to the high use of the labs by individual students.
Reservations will be granted at the discretion of the lab manager.
After the third week of class in any long semester, or the first week of
class in any summer term, the total reservation time must not exceed 15%
(for 100% of computers) of the total time the lab is open per week. For
example, if a computer lab has 60 computers and is open 75 hours/ week,
the maximum number of hours that all 60 computers could be reserved is
11.25 hours/week. Alternatively, that same lab could allow only 30
computers to be reserved for a total of 22.5 hours/week.
Reservation requests for a General Access Lab area may be made only
by faculty, TAs and TFs of that lab's supporting college(s) and/or
school(s). For example, an instructor from the College of Business
Administration (COBA) may request to reserve a COBA General Access Lab,
but not an Arts & Sciences General Access Lab.
The General Access Labs located in the libraries may not be reserved
except by their own staff. These labs will be kept open as much as
possible.
Individual Computer Reservations
The only computers which may be reserved are those which are
one-of-a-kind, in that they are configured differently than the
rest of the lab computers. For example, if there is only one computer to
which a plotter is attached, that computer may be reserved.
Lab Manager
Every General Access Lab should have a full-time position for its
Lab Manager. The Lab Manager is ultimately responsible for hiring,
training, scheduling, and supervising lab monitors and managing the lab
network.
Lab Monitors
Lab monitors will be on duty at all times in each General Access
Lab area staffed at a level appropriate for level and demand. Job
descriptions, payscales, skills requirements, training programs, and
hiring and promotion procedures will be as consistent as possible
between labs. All monitors will wear picture I.D. badges when on duty.
Classification
Most General Access Labs will employ Hourly Student Assistants, BI
code 1710, for lab monitors. These positions must be recruited through
Student Employment. Hourly Student Assistants may work no more than 20
hours/week.
Some labs may be able to employ Hourly Student Academic Assistants,
BI code 1705. These positions need not be recruited through Student
Employment, but Equal Employment Opportunity policies should be
observed. Academic Assistants must be supervised by a member of the
faculty.
The starting wages paid to lab monitors will be reviewed by the GALC
annually.
Tuition Waivers
Students employed in General Access Labs are eligible for tuition
waivers under the circumstances outlined in the following
Personnel policy:
Students that are not titled teaching assistants or research
assistants and are not verifiable on HRMIS at 50% time may be eligible
for tuition waivers provided that:
Each waiver granted under this exception needs to have a statement
of this pertinent information on the waiver form and must be signed by
the department head. In signing this form, the department head is
certifying that the student is eligible for the waiver under the above
conditions, which attempt to approximate a position equivalent to
teaching assistant, but which may not carry that specific title. The
department head needs to be aware of the possibility that the waivers
will be audited by either internal or external auditors, and that the
responsibility for certifying to the eligibility lies with the
department head who signs the waiver. Therefore, if a student
subsequently leaves employment, the department head should contact the
Bursar's office so that the waiver can be revoked if necessary.
In consultation with all college computing committees and the
Deans, GALC will determine and recommend the basic hardware and software
platforms to serve curricular needs of students.
Each lab is encouraged to employ hardware and software which is
included on the UNT Supported Computing Items List and which is
compatible with items found in other General Access Labs.
Sufficient documentation for available software will be accessible
in each lab.
Novell NetWare will serve as the network operating system
for all General Access Labs.
Efforts should be made to purchase new, or upgrade existing,
equipment and software to state-of-the-art models and latest versions.
All labs will provide facilities for the utilization of different
size and density diskettes.
Laser printing will be available in all General Access Labs.
Laser printing will be provided to UNT students ONLY, in support
of their academic course of studies at UNT.
Laser printing will, when possible, be limited to FINAL copies of
documents. Only one final copy of any document may be printed on a lab
laser printer.
The Virus Protection procedures, determined by GALC in accordance
with UNT Data Integrity and Computer Security Policies and Standards,
will be followed in all General Access Labs.
The Network, Menu, and Communications Standards, determined by
GALMAC in accordance with UNT Data Integrity and Computer Security
Policies and Standards, will be followed in all General Access Labs.
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