New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 7 - TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID
Part 35 - GROW YOUR OWN TEACHERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Section 5.7.35.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Academic year" means any consecutive period of two semesters, three quarters or other comparable units commencing with the fall term each year.

B. "Award recipient" means a school employee awarded a scholarship.

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

D. "FAFSA" means the free application for federal student aid.

E. "Half-time" means a student is meeting the institution's criteria of half-time enrollment in its teacher preparation program. The institution's determination may take into account the student's average enrollment for the academic year and the completion of the public education department's licensure requirements.

F. "Institution" means a regionally accredited New Mexico public post-secondary institution or regionally accredited tribal college.

G. "Public post-secondary educational institution" means a research or comprehensive institution, as defined in Article XII, Section 11 of the Constitution of the State 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.

H. "Public school" means a school operating under Article XII of the Constitution of the State of New Mexico and includes constitutional special schools, state institutions and state, federal, or tribal agencies that educate children .

I. "Satisfactory academic progress" means maintaining the required academic progress toward program completion as determined by the institution.

J. "Scholarship" means a grow your own teachers program award.

K. "School employee" means a resident of New Mexico who is authorized to work in the United States and who has been employed by a public school in a position that works directly with students for at least two years and is in good standing with the school district and who is enrolled in or accepted by an undergraduate teacher preparation program at a regionally accredited public post-secondary educational institution in New Mexico.

L. "Teacher preparation program" means a program that has been formally approved as meeting the requirements of the public education department and that leads to level one teacher licensure, including a program in a two-year post-secondary educational institution that meets the requirements for a teacher education transfer module established pursuant to Subsection C of Section 21-1B-4 NMSA 1978.

M. "Tribal college" means a tribally, federally or congressionally chartered post-secondary educational institution with a physical campus in New Mexico that is accredited by the higher learning commission.