New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 55 - PUBLIC POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 5 - COMMON COURSE NUMBERING
Section 5.55.5.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Crosswalk" means a table or database that shows an inventory of equivalent courses offered at multiple institutions.

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

C. "Discipline" or "disciplines" means areas of study that have been included within the common course numbering system.

D. "Equivalent course" means a set of lower division courses offered at multiple institutions that have been identified as sharing at least eighty percent of their student learning outcomes and the institutions offering those courses have agreed to adopt the same four letter and four number designation, course title, and course description.

E. "Faculty" means the current members of the faculty at the public higher education institutions operating within and receiving financial support from the state of New Mexico.

F. "Institution" means a public higher education institution operating within and receiving financial support from the state of New Mexico.

G. "Institutional review" means the process by which an institution conducts internal evaluation and approval of new courses, programs or any other matter related to curriculum. The required review process may differ between institutions and is set by each individual institution.

H. "New Mexico common course numbering system" or "common course numbering system" or "NMCCNS" means a statewide numbering system for all lower division college-level courses offered at public higher education institutions in New Mexico.

I. "Unique course" means a lower division course that does not meet the criteria of an equivalent course and is only offered at a single institution.