New Mexico: Controversial President Put on Leave at NMHU

by E Wayne Ross on July 2, 2006

The Albuquerque Tribue: Suspension was shock at NMHU

Mexico Highlands Board of Regents met last Friday, but something was amiss, student body president Jesse Lopez says.

Manny Aragon, president of the Las Vegas, N.M. university since 2004, wasn’t sitting next to board Chairman Javier Gonzales, but off to the left, near faculty and student senate members, Lopez said.

“What kind of statement were they trying to make?” Lopez wondered at the time.

The statement seemed to manifest itself Wednesday when Gonzales announced Aragon had been placed on administrative leave.