If you are a non-student VCU Faculty member, you'll receive access to Adobe Acrobat Pro during your first week as an employee of the university. Depending on your role, you may be eligible for an upgraded license to access additional Adobe apps from the Creative Cloud suite of tools at no additional cost to your school/college/department*.

Below you will find a table providing eligibility details for all classes of faculty according to VCU's job class table developed by VCU Human Resources (reference: https://wiki.vcu.edu/display/HR/VCU+E-Class+List). 

If you are a VCU Faculty member and you are also taking any credit-bearing courses at VCU (regardless of whether you are taking for credit or auditing), you may not receive access to Adobe Acrobat Pro automatically. Instead, you should complete the VCU Adobe License Request/Upgrade Form to request access to the Adobe software you need. 

*VCU has a limited number of Adobe software licenses available for for eligible instructional faculty employees which cannot be exceeded. These Adobe software licenses will be provided at no cost to the employee's school/college/department if they are eligible (faculty job classification/code AND must be teaching at least one credit-bearing course in the current fiscal/academic year). Otherwise, ALL Adobe software licensing for non-student employees is billed at established annual rate.

All eligible non-student VCU staff members will automatically receive access to Adobe Acrobat Pro within their first week as an employee of the university. Some employees will NOT receive access Adobe Acrobat Pro automatically.

For access to additional Adobe apps such as Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and other apps within the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, all VCU employees must complete the VCU Adobe License Request/Upgrade Form here before access will be granted.

The table below provides details about which job classes automatically receive access to Adobe Acrobat Pro and which job classes must manually request access. 

All eligible VCU students automatically receive access to Adobe Creative Cloud under the Student Technology Fee. Some VCU students who are also employed with the university in certain job classes may need to manually request access to Adobe Creative Cloud depending on their role (usually full-time employees taking classes under tuition-waiver). 

The table below provides details about which job classes of student employees automatically receive access to Adobe Creative Cloud and which job classes must manually request access. 

*Some student employees begin in an Hourly (H1) job class (typically during the Summer semester) before officially beginning classes in the next academic term (typically the Fall semester). If student employees who join under this job class do not enroll in at least one credit-bearing course before Add/Drop of the next academic term, then their business unit will be automatically billed for the full cost of the Adobe software license they requested at the prevailing established annual rate with the appropriate proration based on the date of their request submission. 

Affiliates at VCU is considered a broad category of both employees and in many cases non-employees of the university. Collectively, this group contains variety of individuals who hold all manner of different roles often times overlapping with more traditional employee and student classifications. 

The simplest way to approach Adobe software licensing eligibility for Affiliates is to say, ALL members of this group must manually request an Adobe software license (either Acrobat Pro or Creative Cloud) using the VCU Adobe License Request/Upgrade Form here.

Eligibility for the bulk-agreement does not extend to Affiliates who may also be required to demonstrate the context of their role if they belong to certain groups. For more information (accessible only to current VCU employees and fiscal/technical liaisons), please review the VCU Human Resources Affiliate User Guide (a VCU wiki page) here.