New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 7 - TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID
Part 20 - LEGISLATIVE LOTTERY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Section 5.7.20.11 - ADMINISTRATION OF THE LEGISLATIVE LOTTERY SCHOLARSHIP
Universal Citation: 5 NM Admin Code 5.7.20.11
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. Eligible public post-secondary educational institutions and tribal colleges shall:
(1)
notify students of their possible eligibility, during their first regular
semester of enrollment including transfer students who had the legislative
lottery scholarship at previous institutions;
(2) designate their institution's lead
financial aid officer to be responsible for determining initial and continuing
student eligibility for the legislative lottery scholarship under the terms of
these rules and regulations;
(3)
maintain a listing of each participating student to include, but not be limited
to:
(a) social security number as
appropriate;
(b) cumulative GPA and
completed enrollment hours in prior semesters;
(c) proof of initial and continuing
enrollment;
(d) award semester;
and
(e) other data fields deemed
important by the department;
(4) draw-down files should be submitted to
the department for eligible students as defined in
5.7.20.10
NMAC per semester; all fiscal year draw-downs shall be for eligible students
enrolled during the same fiscal year;
(5) for students that satisfied the first
semester eligibility requirements and seek continuing eligibility
consideration, use professional judgment to determine that exceptional
mitigating circumstances beyond the students control, for which documentation
exists in the student's file; the institutions shall defer to their
institutional satisfactory academic progress policy when considering
circumstances which include, but are not limited to, consideration for falling
below the cumulative GPA requirement or successfully maintain full time
enrollment as defined in Subsection G of
5.7.20.7
NMAC;
(6) provide to the department
by April 15 each year the projected enrollment and tuition rates for the
following academic year for their appropriate institution as follows:
comprehensive, research institution in their second through eighth program
semester including qualified students in their fifth through eighth program
semesters who transferred from a community college; projected enrollment at
each community college at each community college in their second through fourth
program semesters;
(7) publish the
probation policy as defined in Subsection D of
5.7.20.8
NMAC;
(8) encourage consortium
agreements, as defined in the code of federal regulations, 34 CFR 6685, in
order to facilitate the enrollment of students and to facilitate the student's
participation in this program;
(9)
ensure that all available state scholarships including merit based three
percent scholarship and New Mexico scholars are awarded before granting
legislative lottery scholarships; the intent of this provision is that tuition
costs shall be paid first for those students eligible for merit-based aid
packages funded by three percent scholarships; in those instances when tuition
is not fully covered by the merit-based aid package, said student is eligible
for the tuition cost differential to be funded by the legislative lottery
scholarship program; nothing in this section requires a public postsecondary
educational institution to award a scholarship inconsistent with the criteria
established or such scholarship; refer to Subsection G of
5.7.20.9
NMAC for additional provisions;
B. The department shall:
(1) determine the scholarship award pursuant
to the provisions of
5.7.20.10
NMAC; all eligible institutions will be notified prior to June 1
annually;
(2) conduct audits to
ascertain compliance with rules and regulations, if, during the audit process,
evidence indicates that a student should not have received a legislative
lottery scholarship, the department will provide guidance to the institutions
for appropriate action;
(3) make
available to the legislative finance committee and department of finance and
administration, by November 1, the following information:
(a) the status of the fund;
(b) tuition scholarship program participation
data aggregated for each public postsecondary education institution and tribal
college to show:
(i) the number of qualified
students who received tuition scholarships and in the prior 12 month
period;
(ii) the total number of
qualified students enrolled in the prior 12-month period;
(iii) the amount of tuition scholarships
funded by semester and the amount of tuition costs that were not offset by the
tuition scholarship by semester; and
(iv) the number of qualified students who
graduated with a degree and, for each qualified student, the number of
consecutive semesters and nonconsecutive semesters attended prior to
graduation.
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