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Senate Membership 2024-25

Constituency

Member

Term

Renewal

Chancellor

Dr. Judith Sayers

N/A

President and Vice-Chancellor

Dr. Deborah Saucier (Chair)

N/A

Provost and Vice-President Academic

Dr. Michael Quinn

N/A

Dean - Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation

Linda McCandless

N/A

Dean - Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Dr. Claire Grogan  

N/A

Dean - Faculty of Education

Dr. David Paterson

N/A

Dean - Faculty of Health Sciences and Human Services

Dr. Patricia O'Hagan

N/A

Dean - Faculty of Management

Dr. Sungchul Choi

N/A

Dean - Faculty of Science and Technology

Dr. Eve Stringham 

N/A

Dean - Faculty of Social Sciences

Dr. Elizabeth Brimacombe

N/A

Dean - Faculty of Trades and Applied Technology

Glynis Steen

N/A

Chief Librarian

David Alexander

N/A

Faculty - Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation

Joan Robin

3 year

Spring 2027

Faculty - Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation

Sherri McKinnon

3 year

Spring 2026

Faculty - Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Bryn Skibo

3 year

Spring 2027

Faculty - Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Eliza Gardiner

3 year

Spring 2026

Faculty - Faculty of Education

Marian Riedel

3 year

Spring 2027

Faculty - Faculty of Education

Heather Pastro

3 year

Spring 2026

Faculty - Faculty of Health Sciences and Human Services

Ursula Filis

3 year

Spring 2026

Faculty - Faculty of Health Sciences and Human Services

Tina Pereza Rolls

3 year

Spring 2027

Faculty - Faculty of Management

Dr. Aggie Weighill 3 year Spring 2026

Faculty - Faculty of Management

Kristie Dewald

3 year

Spring 2027

Faculty - Faculty of Science and Technology

Dan Baker

3 year

Spring 2027

Faculty - Faculty of Science and Technology

Dr. Heather Wiebe 

3 year

Spring 2026

Faculty - Faculty of Social Sciences

Dr. David Hopwood

(Vice-Chair)

3 year

Spring 2027

Faculty - Faculty of Social Sciences

Dr. Sylvie Lafrenière

3 year

Spring 2026

Faculty - Faculty of Trades and Applied Technology

Buddy Wolfe

3 year

Spring 2027

Faculty - Faculty of Trades and Applied Technology

Brandon Britt

3 year

Spring 2026

Alumni

 vacant

3 year

Spring 2026

Student

Jayabala Jayaram

1 year

Spring 2027

Student

Jomy Thomas

1 year

Spring 2027

Student

Kurtis Johnstone

1 year

Spring 2027

Student

Sarah Mei Lyana

1 year

Spring 2027

Support Staff

Dr. Kathleen Bortolin

3 year

Spring 2027

Support Staff

Johnny Blakeborough

3 year

Spring 2026

Board Appointee - non-voting

[vacant]

1 year

Spring 2027

Registrar - non-voting

Fred Jacklin

N/A

Senate Support

Senate@viu.ca 

N/A


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