New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 7 - TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID
Part 17 - MILITARY WAR VETERAN SCHOLARSHIP
Section 5.7.17.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. "Department" means the New Mexico higher education department.
B. "Educational institution" means any New Mexico public post-secondary institution.
C. "Military war veteran" means a person who has been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States; who was a resident of New Mexico at the original time of entry into the armed forces or who has lived in New Mexico for 10 years or more; and who has been awarded a southwest Asia service medal, global war on terror service medal, Iraq campaign medal, Afghanistan campaign medal or any other medal issued for service in the armed forces of the United States in support of any United States military campaign or armed conflict as defined by congress or presidential executive order or any other campaign medal issued for service after August 1, 1990 in the armed forces of the United States during periods of armed conflict as defined by congress or by executive order.
D. "Recipient" means a student awarded the military war veteran scholarship.
E. "Satisfactory academic progress" means maintaining the required academic progress toward degree completion as determined by the institution.
F. "Scholarship fund" means the military war veteran scholarship fund created in the state treasury to receive any appropriated money, grants, gifts or bequests and income from investment in the fund.
