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Senate Membership

2026-2027

Voting Members

ConstituencyMemberTermRenewal
ChancellorDr. Judith SayersN/A 
President and Vice-Chancellor (Interim)Dr. Dennis Johnson (Chair)N/A 
Provost and Vice-President Academic (Interim)Dr. Claire GroganN/A 
Dean, Arts and Humanities (Interim)Dr. Katharine RollwagenN/A 
Dean, Education and Academic and Career PreparationDr. Rachel MollN/A 
Dean, Health Sciences and Human Services (Interim)Dr. Eve StringhamN/A 
Dean, ManagementDr. Sungchul ChoiN/A 
Dean,Science and Technology (Interim)Dr. Todd Barsby N/A 
Dean, Social Sciences (Interim)Dr. Laura Suski (Interim)N/A 
Dean, Trades and Applied Technology (Interim)Jessie Magee-Chalmers N/A 
Chief Librarian (Interim)Lara WrightN/A 
Faculty Representative, Academic and Career PreparationJoan Robin3 yearSpring 2027
Faculty Representative, Academic and Career PreparationTricia Young3 yearSpring 2029
Faculty Representative, Arts and HumanitiesDr. Bryn Skibo3 yearSpring 2027
Faculty Representative, Arts and HumanitiesVacant3 yearSpring 2029
Faculty Representative, EducationSummer Lin3 yearSpring 2027
Faculty Representative, EducationVacant
 
3 yearSpring 2029
Faculty Representative, Health Sciences and Human ServicesAnne Ruuskanen3 yearSpring 2029
Faculty Representative, Health Sciences and Human ServicesTina Pereza Rolls3 yearSpring 2027
Faculty Representative, ManagementDr. Jean-Guy Robichaud3 yearSpring 2029
Faculty Representative, ManagementKristie Dewald3 yearSpring 2027
Faculty Representative, Science and TechnologyDan Baker3 yearSpring 2027
Faculty Representative, Science and TechnologyVacant3 yearSpring 2029
Faculty Representative, Social SciencesDr. David Hopwood3 yearSpring 2027
Faculty Representative, Social Sciences

Dr. Sylvie Lafrenière

(Vice-Chair)

3 yearSpring 2029
Faculty Representative, Trades and Applied TechnologyBuddy Wolfe3 yearSpring 2027
Faculty Representative,  Trades and Applied TechnologyVacant3 yearSpring 2029
Alumni RepresentativeVacant3 yearSpring 2029
Student RepresentativeVacant1 yearSpring 2027
Student RepresentativeVacant1 yearSpring 2027
Student RepresentativeVacant1 yearSpring 2027
Student RepresentativeVacant1 yearSpring 2027
Support Staff RepresentativeDr. Kathleen Bortolin3 yearSpring 2027
Support Staff RepresentativeJim Atherton3 yearSpring 2029

Non-Voting Members

ConstiuencyMemberTermRenewal
Board AppointeeNate Bello1 yearSpring 2026
Registrar  (Interim)David AlexanderN/A 

Support

The senate of a special purpose, teaching university is composed of the following:

  1. the chancellor
  2. the president, who is its chair
  3. the academic vice president or equivalent
  4. the deans of faculties
  5. the chief librarian
  6. the registrar
  7. two faculty members for each faculty, elected by faculty members of the faculty
  8. four students elected by the students
  9. one alumni member who is not a faculty member, appointed by the president on nomination by the alumni association
  10. two support staff elected by the support staff
  11. one non-voting member of the senate, if appointed to the senate by the board to serve for one year