Campus Planning and Finance Council Members

MEMBERSHIP: The composition of the council can be found in the Faculty Senate Bylaws, Article VI: Councils, Sec. 1, and includes at least 16 members, including the vice president for business and finance, the director of university budgets, the director of planning, space management and capital projects, 10 faculty members elected by the Senate (three from Arts and Sciences–with representation from each division recommended, one from each of the other colleges and one from unaffiliated units), the Faculty Senate president or executive board designee as an ex officio member, one undergraduate student selected by the Western Student Association and one graduate student selected by the Graduate Student Association.

The CPFC requires 9 out of 16 voting members to be in attendance to establish quorum, as long as there are no Vacant seats, any Vacant seat(s) should be removed from the voting member total so that one more than half of the new total is needed for quorum. (*indicates a non-voting member)

Council officers

LuMarie Guth, Chair

Kim Ganzevoort, Vice Chair

Jeff Spoelstra, Secretary

Ex Officio member

Osama Abudayyeh
Faculty Senate Executive Board

Permanent members

Colleen Scarff
Associate Vice President for Business and Finance (designee for Director of University Budgets)

Jan Van Der Kley
Vice President for Business and Finance

Sara VanderVeen
Senior Director of Planning, Design and Construction

Elected members

Todd Barkman (2026)
Arts and Sciences (Sciences and Mathematics)

Cheryl Bauman-Bruey (2026)
Fine Arts

Shonda Buchanan (2028) 
Arts and Sciences (Humanities)

Kim Ganzevoort (2028)
Health and Human Services

LuMarie Guth (2027)
Unaffiliated Unit (University Libraries)

Lynne Heasley (2027)
Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences)

Brittani Jackson (2028)
Business

Valerian Kwigizile (2027)
Engineering and Applied Sciences

Nicholas Rowe (2026)
Aviation

Wayne (Rusty) Stitt (2028)
Education and Human Development

Student members 

Abigale Airo
Graduate student

Mia Breznau
Undergraduate student

Advisory members 

*Sara Nelson
Provost Designee for Academic Affairs, Budget and Operations

*Jeff Spoelstra
Director, Office of Sustainability