NMSU Chancellor Garrey Carruthers to retire next year

New Mexico State University Chancellor Garrey Carruthers plans to retire from his position July 1, 2018, at the end of his contract period. “I have tremendously enjoyed my time here at NMSU, as a student, professor, dean and for the past four years serving as chancellor and president of this great university,” Carruthers said in an news release from the university. “I’m enthusiastically looking forward to what we can accomplish in the next 11 months." Carruthers was named as NMSU’s president and chancellor in 2013. Since that time, the university said he has focused on a number of projects, including student recruitment, fundraising, marketing, strengthening connections with the community colleges in the NMSU system, improving efforts to foster student success and making the university more entrepreneurial...more