N.M. Admin. Code § 5.7.20.7 - DEFINITIONS
A.
"Academic
year" means a consecutive period of three semesters to include fall,
spring and summer.
B.
"Accelerated program" means one in which a summer semester is a
program requirement and not a student choice; a cohort that requires sequence
of courses taken in summer semester.
C.
"Community college" means a
branch community college of a four-year state educational institution, a
two-year state educational institution or a community college or technical and
vocational institute established pursuant to Chapter 21, Article 13 or 16 NMSA
1978, respectively.
D.
"Comprehensive institution" means eastern New Mexico university,
New Mexico highlands university, northern New Mexico college or western New
Mexico university.
E.
"Consortium" means a written agreement between a home institution
and one or more host institutions for consideration of combined enrollment for
eligibility:
(1) home institution is the
institution where the student is enrolled in a degree or certificate seeking
program and is receiving lottery scholarship funds;
(2) host institution is the secondary
institution where the student is taking part of their program
requirements.
F.
"Department" means the New Mexico higher education department
(NMHED).
G.
"Full-time" means 30 credit hours successfully completed each
regular academic year at a research institution, comprehensive institution or
tribal institution or 24 successfully credit hours completed per academic year
at a community college. For students enrolled through a consortium agreement
the minimum credit hour eligibility requirement shall be based on the student's
home institution.
H.
"GPA" means grade point average.
I.
"Legislative lottery
scholarship" means a scholarship that provides tuition assistance per
semester for qualified students awarded from the proceeds of the New Mexico
lottery tuition fund to defray all or part of the cost of tuition.
J.
"Non-enrollment" means a
student is not enrolled in a public post-secondary educational
institution.
K.
"Probation" means a period of time that a student fails to meet
continuing eligibility for exceptional mitigating circumstances as determined
by the lead financial aid officer at the institution; as described in
Subsection D of
5.7.20.8 NMAC.
L.
"Program semesters" means
those semesters for which a qualified student may receive a legislative lottery
scholarship, which includes the summer semester and excludes the first semester
of full-time attendance at a public post-secondary educational institution or
tribal college; provided that the first semester cannot be the summer
semester.
M.
"Public
post-secondary educational institution" means a four-year state
educational institution or a community college.
N.
"Qualified student" means a
full-time student who graduated from a public or accredited private New Mexico
high school or completed the requirements of a home-based or nonpublic
secondary educational program in New Mexico or received a high school
equivalency credential recognized by the state of New Mexico while maintaining
residency in New Mexico and who either:
(1)
within 16 months of graduation or completion of a secondary educational program
specified in this subsection, was accepted for entrance to and subsequently
enrolled full-time at a public post-secondary educational institution or tribal
college without having previously enrolled at a non-qualifying public
post-secondary institution or tribal college; or
(2) within four months of graduation or
completion of a secondary educational program specified in this subsection,
began service in the United States armed forces and within 16 months of
completion of honorable service or medical discharge from the service,
subsequently enrolled full-time at a public post-secondary educational
institution or tribal college without having previously enrolled at a
non-qualifying public post-secondary institution or tribal college;
and
(3) successfully completed the
qualifying semester at a public post-secondary educational institution or
tribal college with a GPA of 2.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale during the first
semester of and completes twelve or more credit hours.
O.
"Research institution" means
New Mexico institute of mining and technology, New Mexico state university and
the university of New Mexico.
P.
"State educational institution" means an institution of higher
education enumerated in Article 12, Section 11 of the Constitution of New
Mexico.
Q.
"Summer
semester" means a semester equal to fall or spring semester in duration
or intensity.
R.
"Tribal
college" means a tribally, federally or congressionally chartered
post-secondary educational institution with a physical campus in New Mexico
that is accredited by the higher learning commission.
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