I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Tucked away in windowless room 288 in New Mexico State University‘s Gerald Thomas Hall, a team of 12 open-source intelligence analysts scours news reports, websites, scientific journals and trade data from around the world.
Their work has earned NMSU…
New Mexico’s Open Meetings Act is meant to help ensure public involvement and to prevent backroom deals in state and local government, but violations of the law are widespread, an investigation by The Independent has found. School boards, universities, town councils, county and state commissions, and boards across the state have broken the law, casting a shroud of secrecy over government officials’ deliberations and bargaining.
A woman suspected of embezzling millions of dollars from a small Northern New Mexico school district offered to repay the money when confronted this summer, reports the Albuquerque Journal.
Also from the Journal, a decrease in medical services for the poor could be one of the negative effects from the state’s recent decision to cut what it pays medical providers like physicians to care for the state’s low-income population through Medicaid, the government’s health insurance program. More …
With another candidate withdrawing his name from consideration, regents at New Mexico State University have three candidates to choose from when they meet today to select the school’s next president.
But, considering that the regents held a closed-door meeting to…
The New Mexico State University Board of Regents is scheduled to hear from its presidential search committee Tuesday afternoon, and the meeting could lead to a public announcement of finalists for NMSU’s top job.
Waded Cruzado was named the next president of Montana State University late Wednesday afternoon. Cruzado, currently executive vice president and provost of New Mexico State University, said in a news release announcing her hiring that she is “honored to…
NMSU Executive Vice President and Provost Waded Cruzado visited the campus of the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) today to interview for that school’s president job. Cruzado has been on the hunt for a new job since being ousted from…
In in interview today in Las Cruces, Domenici said he sees a trend toward greater government involvement in people’s lives as a serious problem that is understandably leading to many of the emotional outbursts coloring the debate. He believes a spirit of bipartisanship and respect will be necessary to address the debt and other problems.
Months after being ousted from the interim president job at New Mexico State University, Executive Vice President and Provost Waded Cruzado is one of three finalists for the president job at Montana State University.
MSU named Cruzado one…
Global warming necessitates the development of improved energy sources and technological leaps in energy efficiency, and New Mexico can play an important role in making that happen, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Monday evening in Las Cruces.
Deans at New Mexico State University appear to be dropping like flies lately. Pamela Jansma, the arts and sciences dean, is leaving in July, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting.
William Flores is leaving his job as New Mexico’s deputy secretary of higher education to be president of the University of Houston-Downtown.
Manuel T. Pacheco says he’s not looking to shake things up as interim president at New Mexico State University, but he has been asked to help improve the school during what he and others plan to be a brief…
New Mexico State University confirmed today what reports on this site and elsewhere already indicated: The regents are expected to name Manuel T. Pacheco interim president on Tuesday.
The New Mexico State University Board of Regents are expected to name Manuel T. Pacheco, a former university president in Arizona, Missouri and elsewhere, as NMSU’s interim president at a special meeting on Tuesday, sources familiar with…
The New Mexico State University Board of Regents announced today that it has finalized the membership of its presidential search committee with the addition of three more members.
The New Mexico State University Board of Regents announced most members of their presidential search committee on Friday.
New Mexico State University Regent Javier Gonzales says Gov. Bill Richardson and his staff had no involvement in the resignation of Interim President Waded Cruzado.
Blake Curtis, chairman of the New Mexico State University Board of Regents, says Interim President Waded Cruzado isn’t being “dumped.”
The resignation of New Mexico State University Interim President Waded Cruzado is in the works, a move that has angered some powerful state legislators who believe the Board of Regents and the Richardson administration are forcing the change.
