College appoints interim director for Office of Communication & Marketing

NEW PALTZ – The State University of New York at New Paltz has appointed Suzanne Grady as the College’s interim director for the Office of Communication & Marketing. Grady will be responsible for media relations, Web services and the College’s marketing and communication functions.

Grady, who will begin her duties on campus Tuesday, August 10, will assume the role of college spokesperson on Monday, August 16, replacing Eric Gullickson, who served in that role for the last eight years. She comes to New Paltz with several years of public relations and marketing experience in higher education, for profit and not-for-profit environments. Currently she is Director of Communication at McKinstry & Associates, a strategic communications firm in White Plains.

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In the past, Grady has served as the communications and community relations manager at Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt Manor; director of publications, marketing and communications at Pace University, where she was responsible for writing, editing, design, budgeting and production of all marketing and communications for a multi-campus university with six schools and a college; and publications manager at Westchester Community College.

Grady has also served as the director of creative services for The College Board, a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity.

Grady holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English/Journalism from Marymount College in Tarrytown.