Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, named Dr. Sherry R. Allison as president of the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, a tribal college in New Mexico.

Allison is a member of the Navajo Nation. She has been serving as acting president of SIPI since January and has worked for the BIA's Office of Indian Education Programs, now known as the Bureau of Indian Education, for 10 years.

"I am pleased that Dr. Sherry Allison has accepted the post of president of the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute on a permanent basis,” Echo Hawk said in a press release. “Her extensive background in the field of American Indian education and her commitment to excellence has inspired my confidence that she is the right leader to take SIPI into its fourth decade.”

Allison is from Shiprock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation.

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Press Release: Echo Hawk Names Allison SIPI President (BIA 12/11)