A multimillion-dollar severance package for a controversial New Mexico higher ed president has ignited outrage amongst the state’s top elected officials. Now, a New ...

A judge shot down a motion to put a temporary hold on a nearly $2 million payment to former WNMU President Dr. Joseph Shepard ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — More members of the embattled board of regents at Western New Mexico University have resigned, a confirmation that came Tuesday during roll call at a meeting scheduled to ...

The New Mexico Attorney General is taking aim at Western New Mexico University and sending the message that rewarding the former president’s questionable behavior, will not be tolerated. On Thursday, ...

The New Mexico state auditor's office has launched a special investigation into WNMU over a deal with its outgoing president ...

A group of Western New Mexico University students took to Regent Square on the Silver City campus Wednesday to say goodbye to ...

Michelle Lujan Grisham has asked for the immediate resignation of regents at Western New Mexico State University after revelations of wasteful spending and failures in financial oversight, according ...

Raúl Torrez also filed a complaint seeking to end Joseph Shepard's separation agreement, which the lawsuit calls an ...

"We're looking into the financial nature. Did this expenditure violate policies and procedures? Were any other laws broken?" State Auditor Joseph Maestas said.

Joseph Shepard, departing president of Western New Mexico University, is $1.9 million richer, and he aims to keep it that way. The seven-figure buyout in return for Shepard's forthcoming resignation ...

"We reached out to his attorney and asked him to voluntarily submit that payment to the court — he refused to do that," NM ...

Western New Mexico University is facing even more scrutiny over a nearly $2 million payout to its outgoing president. It ...