New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 7 - TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID › Part 16 - VIETNAM VETERANS' SCHOLARSHIPS › Section 5.7.16.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "Award letter"
				means official notification to a Vietnam veteran of eligibility to attend an
				educational institution and participate in the Vietnam veterans' scholarship
				program.
B. "Books" is the actual
				expenditure for course required books for classes in which the student is
				enrolled, not to exceed the amount used by the financial aid office for books
				in the calculation of cost of attendance for campus-based programs.
C. "Commission" means the New Mexico
				commission on higher education.
D.
				"Educational institution" for undergraduate instruction means any New Mexico
				state-supported post-secondary institution; for graduate instruction means the
				university of New Mexico, New Mexico state university, western New Mexico
				university, eastern New Mexico university, New Mexico institute of mining and
				technology and New Mexico highlands university.
E. "Eligible class for reimbursement" means a
				course for credit included in a student's official transcript and creditable
				toward a certificate or degree-granting program.
F. "Master's degree course" means a class for
				students who hold a bachelor's degree who have been admitted to a graduate
				school for the purpose of pursuing a master's degree and has not yet completed
				a master's degree.
G. "Non-state
				college" means a financially independent nonprofit nonsectarian four-year
				college or university located in New Mexico and accredited by the north central
				association of colleges and secondary schools.
H. "Required fees" are the special fee
				charges students are required to pay for additional services as a condition of
				admission to the institution. Excluded are "specific service fees" charged only
				to students who enroll in certain programs or courses (i.e., course specific
				fees), or receive specific services (transcript copy fees, graduation fees,
				etc.).
I. "Recipient" means a New
				Mexico resident for tuition purposes and Vietnam veteran as reviewed and
				certified by the New Mexico veterans' service commission. Any person who has
				been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States, who was a
				resident of New Mexico at original time of entry into the armed forces or who
				has lived in New Mexico for ten years or more and who has been awarded a
				Vietnam campaign medal for services in the armed forces of this country in
				Vietnam during the period of August 5, 1964 to the official termination of the
				Vietnam conflict as designated by executive order of the president of the
				United States is eligible for certification.
J. "Scholarship fund" means the Vietnam
				veterans' scholarship fund created in the state treasury to receive any
				appropriated money, grants, gifts or bequests.
K. "Tuition" is the basic educational charge
				that all students are required to pay as a condition of admission and
				attendance for academic services or the course fee charged for certificate
				programs. The actual rate per semester or year is set by each
				institution.
L. "Undergraduate
				post-secondary student" means a matriculated student who has been admitted to
				the college and has not yet completed a bachelor's degree.