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Posted by ttownsend@oftc.edu on March 29, 2012

 

Does anyone out there do reimbursements for cell/smart phones data plans?  If you do, what is the process you have in place for it?

 

 

 

Thanks,

Todd Townsend

Director of Information Technology

Oconee Fall Line Technical College

Phone: 478-274-7721

www.OFTC.edu

 

 

 

 

Effective July 1, 2011, Sandersville Technical College and Heart of Georgia Technical College have merged to become Oconee Fall Line Technical College. As of April 1, 2011, the web domain and email address extensions for both institutions will be changed to OFTC.edu. Please update my contact information to reflect these changes.
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We are investigating this also, in conjunction with our HR department.  We currently provide 35 phones and are considering moving to a BYOD (bring your own device) method with some type of reimbursement.  I would be interested to hear how others have approached this and any success/failure stories.

 

Thanks,

Al

 

Alfred Osward

Director of IT Services and Support

Emmanuel College

 

Posted by: oswaral on March 29, 2012
Message from rguanti@mail.goucher.edu

Good morning,

We also went down this road a few months back. While we were unsuccessful in moving to the BYOD due to some internal roadblocks, however, I feel that would have been the right decision.

At the time I did a little research in case the question was asked, “What do other schools do?” I went through the top 20+ liberal arts colleges (U.S. News) and searched their sites for cell phone policy. Where one was found, I listed it below. It appears that most are using an allowance or stipend model.


Good luck with your switch. If you can HR on board with the paperwork, I think you will be in good shape.


Best regards,

Reid


Reid Guanti

Director of Computing Services

Goucher College


Allowance Models

https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/business/AcctPay/acctpaypol/cellphon/

http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/36671/original/New_Cellular_Phone_Policy_111209__rev_PN___2_.pdf

http://web.wellesley.edu/web/Dept/LT/Computing/Phones/cellpolicy.psml

http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/hr/policies/html/CellPhonesInternetService.php

http://www.wesleyan.edu/finance/financeDept/accounts/cellularpolicy.htt

http://www.hamilton.edu/documents/Cell%20Phone%20Policy-%20Final.pdf

http://www.hmc.edu/files/bao/Cell_Phone_Policy.pdf

  

College Issued Models

http://iits.haverford.edu/services/wireles-voice-and-data-services/

  

No Personal Use Policies

http://oit.williams.edu/policies/cell-phone-policy/

 

Both Options

http://www.wlu.edu/x30900.xml

 


Posted by: listserv-anon on March 29, 2012

Hi Todd,

 

EDUCAUSE has a collection of policies. Many of the policies provide reimbursement methods:

http://www.educause.edu/Resources/Browse/Cell%20Phone%20Policies/33354

 

Thanks,

 

Juan Torres

Manager, Computer Helpdesk

Ohio Dominican University

Phone: 614-253-3615

Website: http://helpdesk.ohiodominican.edu

 

 

Posted by: torresj on March 29, 2012
Todd,

We have been through various iterations of this one.  We started out with having 80 university owned phones and then that jumped to 110.  At that point, in order to comply with the listed property rules by IRS on these devices (not an issue since they were changed), we moved to a stipend.  Employees receive $18.45 per pay ($480 per year before tax) to pay for their own phone.  Stipends must be approved by a VP and employees hired after Dec. 1, 2007 have this requirement in their employment contract and receive no stipend.  The policy is online at http://www.ashland.edu/documents/pdf/cellular-phone-policy-june-17-2009 but all Cabinet members have AU issued cell phones with data (all are iPhones).  Those are the only phones the institution owns.  The move here is to make having a smartphone and being accessible after hours a condition of employment.  At that point, if there are are extra charges for work (excessive pages for system alerts for instance) then the employee can do an expense reimbursement for that cost.

Curtis

Posted by: cdwhite on March 29, 2012
We do.  See http://inside.massart.edu/Technology/Mobile_Phones.html for details of our policy.

Eric



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fax: 617-879-7979
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From: "Townsend, Todd" <ttownsend@OFTC.EDU>
Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Small College Constituent Group Listserv <SMALLCOL@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:30:14 -0400
To: "SMALLCOL@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU" <SMALLCOL@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: [SMALLCOL] Mobile Device Reimbursement Question

 

Does anyone out there do reimbursements for cell/smart phones data plans?  If you do, what is the process you have in place for it?

 

 

 

Thanks,

Todd Townsend

Director of Information Technology

Oconee Fall Line Technical College

Phone: 478-274-7721

www.OFTC.edu

 

 

 

 

Effective July 1, 2011, Sandersville Technical College and Heart of Georgia Technical College have merged to become Oconee Fall Line Technical College. As of April 1, 2011, the web domain and email address extensions for both institutions will be changed to OFTC.edu. Please update my contact information to reflect these changes.
********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

Posted by: ericbird on March 29, 2012
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