I work in the physics department of a top university. The majority of work people in the department do involves a computer at some stage, from computational physics (likely involving supercomputers and months of compute time) at one end of the spectrum to using Excel as a data store at the other.
We do not have an IT department (we have one or two post-doctoral researchers who keep a couple of servers running for undergraduates).
We do not have IT policies, outside of university-wide intellectual property rules.
There are only personal laptops (in the sense that even though my machine was bought for me, I have full control of it and there is no oversight of how the machine is used).
To the best of my knowledge, this is true of the rest of the university (possibly even worse in other departments).
We do not have an IT department (we have one or two post-doctoral researchers who keep a couple of servers running for undergraduates).
We do not have IT policies, outside of university-wide intellectual property rules.
There are only personal laptops (in the sense that even though my machine was bought for me, I have full control of it and there is no oversight of how the machine is used).
To the best of my knowledge, this is true of the rest of the university (possibly even worse in other departments).