Conditions for eligibility

A. The department may award a minority doctoral loan repayment assistance grant to a recipient who: (1) has been hired by a public post-secondary educational institution in New Mexico for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position; (2) has complied with all of the rules adopted by the department pursuant to the Minority Doctoral Loan Repayment Assistance Act; and (3) is a citizen of the United States. B. The department shall give preference to a recipient who has completed a post- secondary degree at an institution designated in Article 12, Section 11 of the constitution of New Mexico. History: Laws 1990 (1st S.S.), ch. 8, § 4; 1991, ch. 262, § 25; 2017, ch. 83, § 4.