New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 7 - TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID
Part 12 - MINORITY DOCTORAL ASSISTANCE
Section 5.7.12.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Award" is a payment of funds on behalf of the recipient to defray the cost of educational loans accumulated in the course of study. The total amount of the award shall be an amount up to a maximum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the first year of doctoral study and renewed annually for up to four years;

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

C. "Eligible doctoral field of study" means the fields of engineering, physical or life sciences, mathematics and other academic disciplines in which certain ethnic or gender groups are demonstrably underrepresented in the teaching faculty at the sponsoring institution;

D. "Eligible institution" means an accredited institution of higher education that offers a doctoral degree-granting program in the fields of engineering, physical or life sciences, mathematics or other academic disciplines in which ethnic minorities or women are demonstrably underrepresented;

E. "Loan" means a grant of funds pursuant to a contract between a recipient and a lender requiring repayment of principal with interest. A lender may include the federal government, a bank or the state;

F. "Public postsecondary educational institution" means a research or comprehensive institution, as defined in Article 12, Section 11 of the Constitution of New Mexico, and branch community colleges or community college or technical and vocational institute as defined by Section 21-13, 14 and 16 NMSA 1978.

G. "Recipient" means an individual who is a member of an ethnic minority or is a woman and who has successfully completed a doctoral degree-granting program at an eligible institution in the field of engineering, physical or life sciences or mathematics or another academic discipline in which ethnic minorities or women are underrepresented; and

H. "Tenure track faculty position" means a full-time faculty appointment at a public postsecondary educational institution that has passed any probationary period and can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances, as determined by the institution.