New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 100 - PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING › Part 6 - REGISTRATION UNDER THE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION ACT › Section 5.100.6.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Accreditation"
means a verified accreditation status with an
				accrediting agency recognized by the United States department of education that
				accredits degree granting institutions, as a means of assuring quality
				instruction.
B.
"Career
				school"
means a private post-secondary educational institution offering
				a formal educational curriculum in New Mexico for a fee to members of the
				general public beyond compulsory school age, terminating in a certificate,
				diploma, associate degree or comparable confirmation of completion of the
				curriculum.
C.
"College"
or
"university"
means a private
				post-secondary educational institution offering a formal educational curriculum
				in New Mexico for a fee to members of the general public beyond compulsory
				school age, terminating in a baccalaureate degree, master's degree, or doctoral
				degree or comparable confirmation of completion of the curriculum.
D.
"Department"
means the New
				Mexico higher education department or its designated employee.
E.
"Enrollment agreement"
means
				an agreement, instrument or note executed before a person begins coursework
				that creates a binding obligation between the person and the post-secondary
				educational institution.
F.
"Exemption"
, or
"Exempt"
means a written acknowledgment by
				the department that an institution, organization, or other entity, has met
				requirements and filed pertinent information as required by the department to
				provide educational services in New Mexico, and is not subject to the
				Post-Secondary Educational Institution Act.
G.
"Institution"
means a
				regionally accredited college or university.
H.
"License"
,
"Licensed"
,or
"Licensure"
means a written
				acknowledgment by the department that a career school or nonregionally
				accredited college or university has met the requirements of the department to
				offer a formal educational curriculum within New Mexico.
I.
"Manager"
or
"Managers"
means the chief executive officer, chief operations
				officer, chief financial officer, senior business or finance officer, senior
				financial aid administrator, and senior or chief academic officer of a New
				Mexico private post-secondary educational institution.
J.
"Management plan of action"
means a plan that has been developed, reviewed and implemented by managers of
				the institution which details specific steps the institution will commit to
				taking in order to remediate an identified weakness, shortcoming or
				insufficiency.
K.
"Physical
				presence"
means the ongoing occupation of a physical location in the
				state, the ongoing maintenance of an administrative office to support the
				provision of higher education instruction, or engaging in one or more of the
				activities detailed in Paragraph 1 of Subsection A of
				5.100.6.6
				NMAC.
L.
"Post-secondary
				educational institution"
or
"post-secondary institution"
includes an academic, vocational, technical, business, professional, or other
				school, college, or university or other organization or person offering or
				purporting to offer courses, instruction, training, or education from a
				physical site in New Mexico, through distance education, correspondence or in
				person.
M.
"Private
				post-secondary educational institution"
means a non-publicly funded
				post-secondary educational institution that offers post-secondary education for
				a fee to members of the general public.
N.
"Prospective student"
means a
				person who demonstrates interest in signing an enrollment agreement with a
				post-secondary educational institution.
O.
"Regional accreditation"
means a verified accreditation status with an accrediting agency recognized by
				the United States department of education that accredits degree granting
				institutions operating in a designated geographic region.
P.
"Registration"
or
"Registered"
means a written acknowledgment by the department that
				a regionally accredited college or university has filed pertinent curriculum
				and enrollment information, as required by the department, and is authorized to
				operate and offer a formal educational curriculum within New Mexico.
Q.
"State Authorization"
means a
				private post-secondary educational institution has been deemed by the
				department to satisfactorily meet criteria, as determined by the department,
				for registration or licensure under the Post-Secondary Educational Institution
				Act. All degree-granting institutions seeking state authorization through
				application for registration or licensure shall be accredited or be seeking
				appropriate external accreditation. State authorization does not serve as an
				endorsement of a particular institution, but confirms that an institution has
				met the minimum criteria set by the department to operate in New
				Mexico.