David Weil serves as the Senior Vice President for Strategic Services and Initiatives and Chief Information Officer at Ithaca College.
He leads a portfolio of key institutional services and functions, including Human Resources, Information Technology, and Analytics. His areas of responsibility span talent management, benefits, employee relations, staff equity, inclusion and belonging, artificial intelligence, process innovation, instructional design, institutional research, applications and infrastructure, IT support, and information security. He also provides executive leadership for cross-institutional strategic initiatives at the direction of the president.
David is the recipient of the 2024 EDUCAUSE Leadership Award, EDUCAUSE’s highest honor, in recognition of his visionary leadership and dedicated service to the higher education technology community. The award celebrates his impact through partnerships, innovative thinking, and commitment to professional development.
A recognized strategic thinker, David actively contributes to national conversations on leadership, digital transformation, analytics, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on how these areas support the mission of higher education. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, institutes, and webinars and has authored numerous articles on these subjects. His insights have been featured in publications and programs sponsored by EDUCAUSE, Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Campus Technology, Ed Tech Magazine, eCampus News and others.
David played an instrumental role in the creation of the EDUCAUSE Executive Leaders Academy and the Senior Director Leadership Institute, and regularly serves as a faculty member and mentor in these and other programs.
In 1991, David founded Ithaca College’s Educational Technology Day, an annual event that continues to engage educators and technologists from across the region and has welcomed more than 30,000 attendees from hundreds of educational institutions and organizations to date.
A complete list of David’s professional work is available at https://www.ithaca.edu/staff/dweil.
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