New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 55 - PUBLIC POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 2 - TRIBAL COLLEGE DUAL CREDIT PROGRAM
Section 5.55.2.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Appropriation" means the legislative financial allocation granted to reimburse the tribal colleges for dual credit tuition and fees.

B. "Classification of instructional program (CIP)" is a coding system that contains titles and descriptions of instructional programs.

C. "Dual Credit Council" is an advisory group consisting of staff of the higher education department and the public education department that issues recommendations to the cabinet secretaries of the public education and higher education departs regarding dual credit issues.

D. "Dual Credit Program" means a program offered by the tribal colleges and secondary schools that permits high school students to enroll in college-level courses offered by the tribal colleges that may be academic or career-technical, but not remedial or developmental. Dual credit students will simultaneously earn credit toward high school graduation and a postsecondary degree or certificate.

E. "Department" means the New Mexico higher education department.

F. "Inadequate Appropriation" means a legislative financial allocation that does not fully compensate all of the tribal colleges for the dual credit tuition and fees.

G. "Local Educational Agency (LEA)" is a public school district, a state-chartered school or a bureau of Indian education-funded high school.

H. "Tribal College" means diné college, the institute of American Indian arts, the Navajo technical university, southwest Indian polytechnic institute and any other post-secondary educational institutions that are tribally, federally or congressionally chartered in the state of New Mexico and accredited by the north central association of colleges and schools.