| Marion Coy appointed Director of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) in October 2002, becoming the second Director of the Institute. She graduated with a degree in History and English from University College Galway and taught for a time at secondary level in Dublin before joining GMIT in the early 1980s, when the Institute was known as the Regional Technical College Galway. Marion Coy began her career in GMIT as a lecturer in communications and immediately set about introducing more humanities subjects to the curriculum. In 1993 she set up a new Department of Humanities and successfully lobbied for the establishment of an arts-based campus in the city, Cluain Mhuire, which offers courses in film, television, art and design.
As Director, she oversees a community of 9,000 students, 500 full-time staff and 400 part-part time staff in four campuses – GMIT Castlebar, GMIT Cluain Mhuire, GMIT Dublin Road and GMIT Letterfrack. The Institute also has an out centre at Mountbellew, Co Galway, in partnership with the Mountbellew Agricultural College and Teagasc. She has delivered numerous papers and addressed national and international conferences on a wide variety of topics. She is a member of the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) and of the Executive Council of the Board of Directors of Institutes of Technology. She is on the Board of the Regional Higher Education Network (Líonra), and on the Galway City Development Board, and is associated with a range of community and arts organisations in the West.
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