Academic and Information Technology 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 17 members, including the chief information officer, the associate provost for WMUx, the vice president for business and finance, the dean of the Libraries, 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 AITC requires 10 out of its current 18 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

Jessica Cataldo, Chair

Katie Marshall, Vice Chair

VACANT, Secretary

Ex Officio member

Kieran Fogarty 
Faculty Senate Executive Board

Permanent members

Brian Carnell
Associate Director of Educational Technology, Online Education (designee for Vice Provost for WMUx)

Paul Gallagher
Associate Dean, University Libraries (designee for Dean of University Libraries)

Andrew Holmes
Chief Information Officer

Scott Puckett
Senior Director of Information Technology, Business and Finance (designee for Vice President for Business and Finance)

Elected members

Jessica Cataldo (2026)
Health and Human Services

Chad Edwards (2028)
Arts and Sciences (Humanities)

Pavel Ikonomov (2027)
Engineering and Applied Sciences

Michael Kahwaji (2026)
Fine Arts

Katie Marshall (2028)
Business 

Joshua Naranjo (2026)
Arts and Sciences (Sciences and Mathematics)

Geraldine Rinna (2027)
Unaffiliated Unit (University Libraries)

Daniela Schroeter (2027)
Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences)

VACANT (2028)
Aviation

VACANT (2028)
Education and Human Development

VACANT (2027)
Representative-at-Large

Student members

Lochlan McElroy
Undergraduate Student

Abena Pinamang
Graduate Student