{"id":4580,"date":"2009-05-18T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/meet-nmsus-next-interim-president\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T06:33:00","slug":"meet-nmsus-next-interim-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/meet-nmsus-next-interim-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet NMSU’s next interim president"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New Mexico State University Board of Regents<\/a> are expected to name Manuel T. Pacheco<\/a>, a former university president in Arizona, Missouri and elsewhere, as NMSU\u2019s interim president at a special meeting on Tuesday, sources familiar with the search process confirmed.<\/p>\n

Pacheco is a former president of the University of Arizona and the University of Missouri System, and served as interim president at his alma matter, New Mexico Highlands University, for a time earlier this decade after the school\u2019s Manny Aragon era ended<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NMSU regents meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday on the main campus in Las Cruces. Click here<\/a> for the meeting\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n

Pacheco isn\u2019t interested in and won\u2019t be allowed to apply for the permanent president job at NMSU, the sources said. That\u2019s a key point because of the situation he\u2019s stepping into as he replaces Waded Cruzado<\/a> in the interim job.<\/p>\n

Cruzado was named interim president last summer after Michael Martin left to be chancellor at Louisiana State University\u2019s main campus in Baton Rouge. Ultimately, the regents scrapped their search for a permanent president last November after spending more than $100,000.<\/p>\n

Some said the search was hampered because campus support for Cruzado created an appearance of a done deal and discouraged potential outside candidates from applying. That included a brunch held in Cruzado\u2019s honor that was hosted by Regent Laura Conniff. Invitations called Cruzado the \u201cfirst female president of NMSU.\u201d<\/p>\n

The replacing of Cruzado with Pacheco in the interim job coincides with the restarting of the search for a permanent president. Regents say moving Cruzado out of the interim job is an attempt to ensure a strong field of applicants and give all, including Cruzado if she wants to apply, an equal shot at the permanent job.<\/p>\n

Pacheco, who is 67 and currently lives in Arizona, is on the board of directors for PNM Resources<\/a>. In addition to serving as president at the land-grant colleges in Arizona and Missouri, he is a former president of the University of Houston and Laredo State University.<\/p>\n

He earned his bachelor\u2019s from Highlands in 1962. He has a master\u2019s from University of Montpellier and a doctorate in foreign language education from Ohio State University.<\/p>\n

The University of Missouri System gives out an annual leadership award<\/a> that\u2019s named for Pacheco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Mexico State University Board of Regents are expected to name Manuel T. Pacheco, a former university president in Arizona, Missouri and elsewhere, as NMSU\u2019s interim president at a special meeting on Tuesday, sources familiar with the search process confirmed. Pacheco is a former president of the University of Arizona and the University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}