Former Lawrence High basketball coach and longtime educator Ted Juneau has been hired fby the Haskell Indian Nations University to evaluate the athletic department, the university announced in a news release.

Juneau, the release said, will conduct an assessment of fiscal issues, human resources and facilities of the athletic department.

The school has been without an athletic director since the resignation of Dwight Pickering in February. The position will remain vacant during the nine-month stay of Juneau, a veteran of 33 years in public education who counted among his pupils Danny Manning when Juneau was the Lawrence High basketball coach and Manning was in his senior year.