(Update below) A former Western New Mexico University student, George Ambriz, asked a debate question ((transcript here)) during the Democratic showdown in Las Vegas Thursday night. Ambriz asked whether the candidates believe there is a connection between immigration and terrorism. Robert Lovato at the Huffington Post has a bit more about George’s question: If you [...]

Art Levine’s article on a union-busting seminar reminded me of the good old days at WNMU: But if everything failed, and we found ourselves negotiating with a newly formed union, then we still shouldn’t lose heart. Instead, we could continue to undermine the union by rejecting all of its demands during negotiations. (In fact, in [...]

After 25 years at Western New Mexico University, my aunt Barbara is retiring from her position as assistant athletic director. Throughout the past four years, she has had a tremendous impact on my life; what’s more, I know she has had a similar effect on the countless students she has met in the last quarter-century. [...]

Heath Haussamen reported recently that Gov. Bill Richardson has named a new student regent for New Mexico State University: I haven’t heard anything about regent appointments at Western New Mexico University (click here to see the current make up of the board). Stephen Janos has served two four-year terms as a regent, and is not [...]

From the WSC web site: Western New Mexico rushed for 287 yards and scored a 24-0 victory over Western State today at Mountaineer Bowl. Western New Mexico improved to 3-1 overall and 2-1 in RMAC play. Western State fell to 1-3 overall and 1-1 in conference. Dakota Woodard led the Mustangs with 14 rushes for [...]

6:07 — Due to the weather, looks like the forum is going to start bit late. Be back when things get underway. 6:15 — Looks like we’re getting things started. 6:19 — Dr. Counts: two purposes of the meeting tonight: information on the university, and what the school was doing, and to plan for the [...]

Looking toward tonight’s “Focus on the Future” event at Western New Mexico University, I threw together this chart to highlight the growing problem of declining enrollment at the school. In blue are the credit hours for lower division courses, while the numbers in green and red indicate upper and graduate division courses, respectively. To understand [...]

Tomorrow evening, univesity President John Counts will present a forum called “Focus on the Future,” at Western New Mexico University. I’ll be attending the event, and, thanks to the wonderful Wi-Fi access at the school, hope to live-blog the forum as well. I’m interested in hearing what Counts has to say about WNMU, which has [...]

Looks like I’m heading to the WNMU “Focus on the Future” forum after all. Carmen Maynes, in the president’s office at the school, called today to offer me a seat. The event will be packed, apparently — Maynes said she didn’t get an invite either.

Several things have been happening with Western New Mexico University recently to suggest the school is working on its image. The first sign was a call from university spokeswoman Julie Morales several weeks ago, when she told the Daily Press that university president John Counts would be meeting one-on-one with members of the community. We [...]

Most of my regular readers likely read the Daily Press as well, and, therefore, most of you know about the elevator shooting story I wrote for Friday’s edition. This post, however, is some background behind the story. In light of the recent controversy surrounding WNMU and the Chamber of Commerce, I thought it might be [...]

This seemed like a good time to post this, considering all the work being done to establish a union at Western New Mexico University: The seldom seen and controversial independent film, Salt of the Earth, will be screened at Albuquerque’s Guild Cinema on May 1-4, accompanied by panel discussions and more. If you’ve never seen [...]