“There needs to be a reckoning so that in the future we can move forward with trust and transparency,” said WNMU Economics Professor Jorge Romero-Habeych. But what does this mean for the ...

Joseph Shepard stepped down as president of WNMU after a state audit found he spent $316,000 of university money on lavish international trips, high-end furniture and other items over the course ...

It will be a happy new year for Joseph Shepard, the outgoing president of Western New Mexico University (WNMU), who is scheduled to receive a $1.9 million lump-sum payment on January 15 as part of ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (KRQE) — New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed an emergency motion in court on Monday to stop Western New Mexico University (WNMU) from paying a nearly $2 million ...

Torrez called the severance payout to Shepard an egregious misuse of public funds and a betrayal of the WNMU Board of Regents’ responsibility to act in the best interest of the university and ...