https://www.reddit.com/r/NewMexico/comments/1iek6hn/corruption_at_new_mexico_tech/
created by chizzyg18 on 31/01/2025 at 17:30 UTC
115 upvotes, 7 top-level comments (showing 7)
Are there any other former or current NMT students that were not surprised at all that Wells uncovered corruption and was forced out because of it.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/courts/article%5C_60c5f7e0-d9ea-11ef-95b3-93aa478e9b4e.html[1][2]
1: https://www.abqjournal.com/news/courts/article%5C_60c5f7e0-d9ea-11ef-95b3-93aa478e9b4e.html
2: https://www.abqjournal.com/news/courts/article_60c5f7e0-d9ea-11ef-95b3-93aa478e9b4e.html
Comment by NthdegreeSC at 31/01/2025 at 21:25 UTC
45 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Funny that they didn’t mention the regent involved with the bank by name. Good old New Mexico reporting. Cuatro Bursum still scares the press.
Comment by DaymanSunChampion at 31/01/2025 at 20:02 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Wow. That’s basic personal finance to not keep that much in a regular bank account. Terrible
Comment by _tsi_ at 31/01/2025 at 20:51 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Not surprised sadly
Comment by 1playerpiano at 01/02/2025 at 06:44 UTC
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Combine this scandal with the shitshow going on with the WNMU board of regents and I’m starting to think Michelle Lujan Grisham has some dirty dealings going on, since she���s the one who appoints the regents.
Comment by Practical_Ad_2794 at 31/01/2025 at 22:47 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Corruption and waste is common place in NM universities.
Comment by Character_Cellist_62 at 31/01/2025 at 23:25 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I was a student there for a while and this was an ongoing thing that a few professors had divulged to me and some other students privately.
It actually goes a lot deeper than what's being reported here. The school actually has a major mental health issue. There were suicides and deaths by drug abuse and alcoholism almost every single semester, in a school of only about 1000 students nonetheless. During finals week it was common for students to start showing up at the ER of Socorro General with severe depression and suicidal tendencies.
Not to mention how many students I know who graduated from that school being wonderfully intelligent and having a great work ethic and were not able to find any gainful employment whatsoever for the sheer fact that the classes were so hard and unforgiving only a small percentage of students make it through with an F on their transcipt. Meanwhile they also gave a master's degree to a student from an extremely wealthy foreign family who was so incompetent that they couldn't even TA a 101 class and a PhD to a student who was known among the female student body as a serial date rapist.
Comment by RobertMcCheese at 31/01/2025 at 20:37 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I am a former student who had no idea any of this is going on.
But I haven't been in school or paid any attention to NMT in over 30 years.