Ithaca College

Posted on behalf of Interim Vice President for Finance and Administration Janet Williams and President Tom Rochon.

After a national search, David Weil has been named Associate Vice President for Digital Instruction and Information Services (DIIS) and Chief Information Officer at Ithaca College. We want to thank and applaud Dave for serving over the past year as Interim AVP, succeeding Keith “Mac” McIntosh, who left IC in July 2016. Our thanks as well to the search committee, led by Dean John Sigg, for its diligent work over the past several months.

We are very fortunate to have Dave serving in this role at the college, as his relationship with the campus community is longstanding and committed. We are confident in his ability to lead DIIS, and to execute and improve the DIIS strategic plan.

Dave will continue to report directly to Janet through the Division of Finance and Administration and serve on the Provost’s Council. As CIO, he will lead the transformed DIIS department, and will be supported by his direct reports in Jason Youngers (Information Security), Casey Kendall (Architecture and Infrastructure), Bill Liddick (Engagement and Implementation), and Mark Fink (Teaching and Learning with Technology).

Over his 27-year career, Dave has held a number of positions throughout Ithaca College’s information technology organization. Prior to his role as interim CIO, he most recently served as the Director of Engagement and Implementation, leading efforts to engage and interface with the campus, provide software as a service and other application implementation services, and offer business process improvement services. Prior to that, he was the Director of Enterprise Application Services, responsible for supporting the college’s main business and web applications.  

He was instrumental in establishing the college’s popular Educational Technology Day, a regional technology show that over 1,600 people attend annually and which recently celebrated its 27th anniversary.

According to Dave, “I am honored to have been asked to take on this role, and I’m looking forward to leading the IT organization and working with our great staff on its continued transformation to better serve our students, faculty, and staff, and be a vital partner in advancing the college’s strategic goals.”

Dave earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science and master’s degree in communications, both from Ithaca College. He is also a graduate of the Frye Leadership Institute and Leading Change Institute, both sponsored by EDUCAUSE, a national nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through the use of information technology.

He regularly presents at national conferences on topics related to information technology in higher education, and has served on numerous EDUCAUSE committees, including the National Program Committee, Senior Leader Roundtable Council, Security Task Force Policy and Legal Issues Working Group, and Professional Development Advisory Committee. He is currently a member of the 2017 EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel and the Enterprise IT Working Group.

Please join us in congratulating Dave on his continued career success.

Janet Williams
Interim Vice President for Finance and Administration

Tom Rochon
President