MICA recognizes that a number of faculty need access to software that is used as an important part of teaching within their departmental areas. We know that many faculty purchase and upgrade their own laptops that are used both at home and on campus as integral tools for teaching and communication with students. Maintaining up-to-date software that mirrors the key software used by students and other faculty is vital to their role as educators.
In response to this, MICA is developing a program to make certain that faculty are provided with some of the key software they need to do their job as instructors. Clearly MICA cannot afford to purchase all the software loaded on all of the campus computers for all faculty. So for now, the program is conceived to address the fundamental needs that faculty have for the most used software at MICA. This will include the Adobe Creative Suite, the Microsoft Office Suite, and certain Apple programs like Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, and Aperture.
Microsoft Office - MICA pays a yearly campus license fee for the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.) so that members of the faculty may have access to the most up-to-date versions of this software for both Mac and PC format. The MICA College store provides copies to any faculty member for essentially the cost of the DVDs and the copying process - $18 for the entire suite. Please visit the College Store to pick up your copies.
Adobe Creative Suite – If you use Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, or other components of the Adobe Creative Suite as an integral part of your work as an instructor at MICA and you have a personal computer that you bring to MICA or use at home as an indispensable tool in teaching, MICA will make that software available to you.
Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express – If you teach these programs to students as a core part of the curriculum and are required to know the software sufficiently to be able to provide technical assistance and instruction to students, MICA will make this software available to you to load onto your personal computer.
Please go to http://www.mica.edu/Faculty/Downloadable_Faculty_Resources.html and download the form to apply for this software support. Once you have filled out the form, have it signed by your Department Chair or Graduate Director and then send it on to Jan Stinchcomb, the Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Faculty for final approval. If approved, Technology Services will contact you to make the software available to you.
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