The New Mexico state auditor's office has launched a special investigation into WNMU over a deal with its outgoing president ...
At 11 a.m. on a sunny, cool winter day, Jan. 15, 2025, a group of about 20 international students, as well as more students and staff members gathered on Regents' Square at Western New Mexico ...
Senator Crystal Diamond-Brantley called what's happening to Dr. Shepard, "a political witch hunt…by outside influencers."* ...
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed an emergency motion in court on Monday to stop Western New Mexico University ...
Western New Mexico University president Joseph Shepard received a lucrative payout when he resigned amid controversy. Here’s ...
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 ...
In November 2024, state auditors released a bombshell report revealing questionable spending of $360,000 in university money under former WNMU president Dr. Joseph Shepard over a five-year period.
from paying a nearly $2 million dollar severance payment to departing President Dr. Joseph Shepard. “I can’t think of a time when somebody has been under sort of this kind of cloud and there ...