Joseph Shepard is out as president of Western New Mexico University after more than 13 years on the job. The university Board of Regents unanimously voted to terminate his contract on Friday ...

Faculty at Western New Mexico University are seething and lawmakers want all members of the Board of Regents to resign after they handed President Joseph Shepard a $1.9 million exit package when his ...

Facing withering scrutiny from state officials over a costly exit agreement with outgoing president Joseph Shepard, four of Western New Mexico University’s five regents have now resigned, the ...

A golden parachute touched down Friday in Silver City. Joseph Shepard resigned as president of Western New Mexico University in return for a lump-sum payment of $1.909 million. Western’s five ...

The push for more scrutiny comes after the WNMU Board of Regents approved a $1.9 million payout to the former president, ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (KRQE) — New Mexico ... to stop Western New Mexico University (WNMU) from paying a nearly $2 million dollar severance payment to departing President Dr. Joseph Shepard.

Jan. 13—A state judge in Grant County ruled Monday he will not order outgoing Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard to immediately return a $1.9 million severance check or order ...

“Egregious misconduct by the board of regents at Western New Mexico University and its outgoing President Dr. Joseph Shepard,” said Torrez. That is how New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — Western New Mexico University's president has agreed to resign. Joseph Shepard’s resignation Friday comes after a state audit found evidence of wasteful spending by ...