Cooney Concluding Assignment as UNMG Interim Executive Director June 30

For Release - June 18, 2009

Barry Cooney, interim executive director of the University of New Mexico-Gallup, will conclude his service to the branch on June 30, the last day of his contract. Paul Kraft, Student Services director, will assume administrative duties until Sylvia Rodriguez Andrew, the newly appointed executive director, arrives in mid-August.

Cooney has been appointed special assistant to Deputy Provost Richard Holder, starting July 1, for an as yet undetermined period of time. He was named interim executive director in April 2008, following former Executive Director Beth Miller’s assignment as special assistant to UNM’s outgoing Vice President of Rio Rancho Operations and Branch Academic Affairs Marc Nigliazzo.