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
Timothy Broadwater, Chair
Jessica Cataldo, Vice Chair
Cara Masselink, 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
Timothy Broadwater (2025)
Aviation
Jessica Cataldo (2026)
Health and Human Services
Colin Cork (2025)
Education and Human Development
Annette Hamel (2026)
Arts and Sciences (Humanities)
Pavel Ikonomov (2027)
Engineering and Applied Sciences
Michael Kahwaji (2026)
Fine Arts
Cara Masselink (2027)
Representative-at-Large (Health and Human Services)
Joshua Naranjo (2026)
Arts and Sciences (Sciences and Mathematics)
Geraldine Rinna (2027)
Unaffiliated Unit (University Libraries)
Daniela Schroeter (2027)
Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences)
Julia Stachofsky (fall 2024 substitute for Katie Marshall) (2025)
Business
Student members
Vacant
Undergraduate student
Michael Osei
Graduate student