New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 7 - TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID
Part 16 - VIETNAM VETERANS' SCHOLARSHIPS
Section 5.7.16.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Award letter" means official notification to a Vietnam veteran of eligibility to attend an educational institution and participate in the Vietnam veterans' scholarship program.

B. "Books" is the actual expenditure for course required books for classes in which the student is enrolled, not to exceed the amount used by the financial aid office for books in the calculation of cost of attendance for campus-based programs.

C. "Commission" means the New Mexico commission on higher education.

D. "Educational institution" for undergraduate instruction means any New Mexico state-supported post-secondary institution; for graduate instruction means the university of New Mexico, New Mexico state university, western New Mexico university, eastern New Mexico university, New Mexico institute of mining and technology and New Mexico highlands university.

E. "Eligible class for reimbursement" means a course for credit included in a student's official transcript and creditable toward a certificate or degree-granting program.

F. "Master's degree course" means a class for students who hold a bachelor's degree who have been admitted to a graduate school for the purpose of pursuing a master's degree and has not yet completed a master's degree.

G. "Non-state college" means a financially independent nonprofit nonsectarian four-year college or university located in New Mexico and accredited by the north central association of colleges and secondary schools.

H. "Required fees" are the special fee charges students are required to pay for additional services as a condition of admission to the institution. Excluded are "specific service fees" charged only to students who enroll in certain programs or courses (i.e., course specific fees), or receive specific services (transcript copy fees, graduation fees, etc.).

I. "Recipient" means a New Mexico resident for tuition purposes and Vietnam veteran as reviewed and certified by the New Mexico veterans' service commission. Any person who has been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States, who was a resident of New Mexico at original time of entry into the armed forces or who has lived in New Mexico for ten years or more and who has been awarded a Vietnam campaign medal for services in the armed forces of this country in Vietnam during the period of August 5, 1964 to the official termination of the Vietnam conflict as designated by executive order of the president of the United States is eligible for certification.

J. "Scholarship fund" means the Vietnam veterans' scholarship fund created in the state treasury to receive any appropriated money, grants, gifts or bequests.

K. "Tuition" is the basic educational charge that all students are required to pay as a condition of admission and attendance for academic services or the course fee charged for certificate programs. The actual rate per semester or year is set by each institution.

L. "Undergraduate post-secondary student" means a matriculated student who has been admitted to the college and has not yet completed a bachelor's degree.