Mark McConahay

Senior Consultant, AACRAO Consulting

March McConahay, M.S.E.S., currently serves AACRAO in the role of Digital Credential Coordinator.  Previously, he worked for Indiana University as the associate registrar of systems for many years before becoming the associate vice provost and registrar. McConahay’s history at IU includes leading the implementation of student records component within an ERP, the implementation electronic (PDF) transcripts, automated workflow for drop/add and grade changes, the Grade Context Record, The Automated Course Exchange, Touchtone Registration, Degree Audit, and others. The Automated Course Exchange (1995-96) and the Grade Context Record (1998-99) projects each received awards from EDUCAUSE and CUMREC. McConahay served as the program director for the AACRAO Technology (now the Technology and Transfer) conference from 2009 to 2016. He also served on the AACRAO Board of Directors from 2017 to 2020 as the vice president for information technology.  

McConahay previously received the AACRAO Honorary Membership award (2021), the Indiana University E. Ross Bartley award for service (2021) the IU Bicentennial Medal (2020), Thomas A. Bilger Award (2017) and the Indiana ACRAO Distinguished Service Award (2019). He holds a B.A. in math and an MSES from Indiana University.