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 ...

The former board of regents supported a guaranteed one-time payment of a $1.9 million severance package, a full-time teaching position for the WNMU School of Business and an eight-month sabbatical ...

“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 ...

Maestas says starting in 2023 his office started getting complaints about spending by leaders at WNMU. “There was allegations of improper spending and travel and procurement purchases,” said ...