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Copyright © 2006 Bowie State University Telecommuting Center. All rights reserved.
    Telework or Telecommuting Centers are a popular work option and are seen as a
    welcomed alternative to a tiny and cramped home office, the dining room table or kitchen
    counter!  Working at home may not be an option for some employees that have child or
    elderly care responsibilities.  Some employees lack the discipline to work at home.  
    Others may like the separation of home and work, or desire the collegiality of working
    outside the home.  Responding to the needs of its community, Bowie State University,
    through the combined interests of government and education, developed the Bowie
    State University Telecommuting Center. The Center opened in June 1998, as a Pilot
    of the U.S. General Services Administration’s Interagency Telecommuting Pilot
    Project.  Located in the Thurgood Marshall Library, the Center houses professional and
    technologically advanced workstations.  Clients of the Center have included the U.S.
    Office of Personnel Management, U.S. General Services Administration, Federal
    Highway Administration, National Science Foundation, Naval Seas Systems, Homeland
    Security (Army, Customs, Immigration, Transit Security),  Nuclear Regulatory
    Commission, NIH,  IRS, NOAA, and U.S. agencies of Agriculture, Education, Justice,
    Transportation, and Environmental Protection, to name a few.  The Center is also available
    for use by the private sector.

    Telework has long been viewed as an essential element for continuity of operations
    planning (COOP).  The BSU Center currently serves as a Continuity of Operations
    site for one federal agency, and conducts COOP exercises to prepare for potential
    disruptions in this agency’s Washington-based headquarters.  A 2006 GAO Audit of this
    Agency’s COOP Plan gave the BSU Telework Center high marks for providing COOP
    Services.

    The Bowie State University Telecommuting Center is fully funded by the U.S. General
    Services Administration.