New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 5 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 3 - POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTION FINANCES › Part 12 - INSTRUCTIONAL FUNDING › Section 5.3.12.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "Academic
				credit" means student credit hours for courses that through institutional
				policy and academic convention are determined to have the academic resources
				and support to meet traditional expectations for certificate and degree credit
				in academic and vocational programs.
B. "Department" means the New Mexico higher
				education department.
C. "Course
				file" is the department's data file containing one record for each
				course-section at a given public post-secondary educational institution per
				academic term.
D. "Developmental
				credit" means student credit hours for courses which provide preparatory work
				(basic skills) that is prerequisite to the level of work expected for
				college.
E. "Extended learning"
				means the full range of available and developing modes for bringing instruction
				to learners, including live instructor delivery, instructional television,
				computer conferencing, video conferencing, audio conferencing, etc.
F. "Extension, correspondence, or self-study
				credits " are student credit hours for courses that are limited in academic
				content, academic resources and/or setting (such as formal and regular
				student-instructor contact), or are so specialized that they do not meet
				traditional standards of applicability to degree program requirements. These
				courses are marked by the label, "extension," "correspondence," "self-study,"
				or "home study" so that their special nature is considered in evaluation for
				degree credit.
G. "Off-campus
				credits" are student credit hours earned from courses offered that do not meet
				the definition of on-campus credits but are offered for regular academic credit
				and are applicable to an approved degree or certification program, taught by
				regular faculty or equivalent and delivered via extended learning instruction.
				Off-campus credits are reported in separate extended services data files to
				generate funding and include additional data fields to indicate the delivery
				location(s) of the instruction.
H.
				"On-campus credits" are student credit hours earned from courses that are
				offered within the geographical boundaries of the campus or via institutional
				web-based delivery systems for academic credit and for which regular main
				campus tuition is charged.
I.
				"Registrar file" is the department's data file containing summary data of
				enrollments and residency of students at a given public post-secondary
				educational institution for fall term only.
J. "Restricted credits" are student credit
				hours earned in a course offered for academic credit for which the expenses of
				delivery are covered by funds from restricted sources (i.e., grants or
				contracts), by direct third-party payment (e.g., ROTC), or by the pooling of
				tuition and fees (i.e., self support).
K. "Right of first refusal" means that an
				institution assigned a service area must first decline to provide requested
				educational services before another New Mexico public post-secondary
				institution may offer those services in that service area.
L. "Service area" is an assigned geographic
				region where the local two-year higher education institution has the exclusive
				right to meet the lower division post-secondary educational needs of the area,
				subject only to limitations imposed by its enabling legislation, and consistent
				with the provisions of this policy. An institution may utilize its right of
				first refusal to allow other public higher education institutions to deliver
				offerings within its designated service area.
M. "Student file" is the department's data
				file containing one record for each student taking courses at a given public
				post-secondary educational institution per academic term.
N. "Student-course file" is the department's
				data file containing one record for each course that each student at a given
				public post-secondary educational institution is enrolled in each academic
				term.
O. "Student credit hours" are
				instructional time units derived from the structure of academic degrees and
				programs. Generally, one student credit hour is considered to require no less
				than fifteen contact hours between the student and instructor and thirty hours
				of independent effort by the student in course preparations per academic
				term.
P. "Tuition credit base"
				means the base revenue anticipated to be available from tuition sources to
				assist in funding the cost of instruction at New Mexico's public post-secondary
				educational institutions.
Q.
				"Unrestricted credits" are student credit hours earned in a course offered for
				academic credit for which the faculty salary is paid by funds from the regular
				instruction and general sources and for which the student cost is the regular,
				on-campus tuition.
R. "Web-based
				courses" are courses offered for academic credit and delivered synchronously or
				asynchronously over the Internet to students located at sites other than the
				classroom, including sites that may be off-campus. A web-based course may
				include the requirement that a student meet in a physical setting for lecture,
				laboratory, examination or other purposes as long as the required student
				presence in the physical setting does not exceed 25% of the total course
				time.