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June 13, 2007

O’Neill Named Executive Director at UNM-Taos

University of New Mexico interim Provost Viola Florez today announced that Dr. Kate O’Neill has been selected as the Executive Director of UNM-Taos. Her new position is effective July 1.

“We are happy to have someone of Dr. O’Neill’s caliber and experience to head up the Taos branch campus,” said Florez. “ She has accomplished a lot in the past year and we expect great things from Taos. President Schmidly joins me in congratulating Dr. O’Neill and the whole Taos community.”

O’Neill has been at UNM-Taos since 1994 when she began teaching as an adjunct faculty member. She became a full-time faculty member in 2003 and she has served as a department chair, academy head for Liberal Arts and, for the past year, as interim Executive Director at UNM-Taos. O’Neill earned her masters and doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Human Development and Psychology. In June 2006 she received tenure as an associate professor of Psychology at UNM-Taos.

“I look forward to continuing to build our campus and our educational community. We have a great team of faculty, staff and students, and together we will bring beneficial programs to Taos,” said O’Neill. “I’m excited about the challenges and opportunities involved in the growth and development of the Taos campus, such as making the campus environmentally sustainable. We will continue to work together with the advisory board, the town, county, the public schools, and our many community partners, to make UNM-Taos the best it can be.”

“This is an exciting time to step into a role like this,” added O’Neill. “With a new University President, David Schmidly, and Vi Florez as interim provost, we will take bold steps toward making the changes and initiatives we need to make the Taos branch a vital and growing community college. I appreciate the enormous community support and pledge to give the development of this college my all.”

Details of O’Neill’s contract are still being worked out.


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