UNM–Valencia Chancellor Samuel Dosumu steps down

Leadership at the local branch campus is experiencing a change up this spring.

The University of New Mexico recently announced UNM-Valencia Chancellor Dr. Samuel Dosumu has stepped down, effective Monday, March 9.

In a press release posted on UNM’s website on March 10, UNM Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Rodriguez announced Dosumu’s resignation. He was selected as chancellor in May 2022.

Dosumu will remain a tenured faculty member in the division of social sciences at UNM-Valencia.

In the same press release, Rodriguez announced UNM-Valencia’s Dr. Laura Musselwhite, who has been the campus’s dean of instruction and chief academic officer at UNM-Valencia since 2014, will be stepping in as interim chancellor “to ensure continuity of leadership and campus operations,” Rodriguez said in the release. “With her deep experience and commitment to students, I’m confident UNM-Valencia will continue its important work serving learners across Valencia County.”

Musselwhite, who is a professor of history, was previously at Georgia Highlands College, where she taught history for nearly 20 years.

In fall 2025, the UNM-Valencia campus had an enrollment of 1,390 students.

The News-Bulletin has requested a copy of Dosumu’s letter of resignation from Rodriguez, as well as details on how the candidate search for a new UNM-Valencia chancellor will move forward.