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 - DURATION OF SCHOLARSHIP

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. Upon
				qualification, the student's initial scholarship shall begin with the second
				semester of enrollment at a public post-secondary educational institution or
				tribal college. Thereafter, each scholarship is for a period of one semester
				subject to revocation for failure to maintain eligibility. The scholarship may
				be renewed on a semester basis until the award recipient has received the
				legislative lottery scholarship for a maximum of seven fall and spring program
				semesters and a maximum of three summer semesters, or no more than three and
				one-half years for a bachelor's degree.
B. An award recipient may use the award at an
				eligible two-year public post-secondary educational institution until the
				student receives a maximum of three fall and spring program semesters of
				scholarship awards or an associate's degree and can continue to use the award
				at an eligible New Mexico four-year public post-secondary educational
				institution or tribal college if the student transfers to a four-year public
				post-secondary educational institution or tribal college without a break in
				attendance or the semester following receipt of the associate's degree. In no
				case shall a student receive more than seven program semesters of the award
				with the exception of students with disabilities.
C. A student may transfer from a four-year
				public post-secondary educational institution or tribal college to a two-year
				public post-secondary educational institution, but in no case shall a student
				receive more than three program semesters of awards at the two-year institution
				(including those awarded at the prior public post-secondary educational
				institution or tribal college) or until the student graduates with an associate
				degree, whichever is sooner.
D. For
				students with disabilities in no case shall eligibility extend beyond 14
				consecutive program semesters at a four-year institution and seven consecutive
				program semesters at a two-year institution. The maximum number of program
				semesters shall include no more than three summer semester awards.
E. A student who has been previously eligible
				may request a leave of absence for cooperative education, military obligations,
				participation in a study abroad program through the home institution or other
				exceptional mitigating circumstances.
F. The student's institutional lead financial
				aid officer may approve a leave of absence for a period of up to one year if in
				the lead financial aid officer's professional judgment the student has provided
				sufficient documentation to justify the leave of absence. Subsequent requests
				for an additional leave of absence by a student may be considered by the
				institution's lead financial aid officer in increments not to exceed one
				year.
G. The lead financial aid
				officer shall, in turn, ensure that the student does not receive program awards
				in excess of those prescribed in Subsections A and B of
				5.7.20.11 NMAC and shall exclude
				the semesters of "non-enrollment" from the determination of eligible award
				semesters.
H. If a student becomes
				ineligible for a different state scholarship that is designated for one hundred
				percent tuition, but satisfies the first semester eligibility requirements and
				thereafter is eligible for the legislative lottery scholarship, the student may
				begin receiving the legislative lottery scholarship for the remaining number of
				semesters of enrollment, not to exceed those prescribed in Subsections A and B
				of 5.7.20.11 NMAC.