New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 7 - TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID › Part 20 - LEGISLATIVE LOTTERY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM › Section 5.7.20.13 - ADMINISTRATION OF THE legislative lottery SCHOLARSHIP

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 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 5.7.20.10 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) each semester,
				ensure during the qualifying semester all available merit-based aid packages,
				three percent scholarships, institutional award packages, and state aid are
				awarded first before granting the New Mexico opportunity scholarship for
				tuition. If the student does not qualify for any merit-based aid packages,
				three percent scholarships, institutional award packages or state aid the
				student may qualify to receive the New Mexico opportunity scholarship for
				tuition and fees during the qualifying semester at the discretion of the lead
				financial aid officer.