{"data":{"id":"us-nm/21-1-26.7","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"21-1-26.7","heading":"Annual accountability report.","body":"A. The higher education department shall submit an annual accountability report to the governor and to the legislature by December 31. Prior to publication, the department shall distribute a draft of the accountability report to all public post-secondary educational institutions and shall allow comment upon the draft report.\nB. The department in consultation with each public post-secondary educational institution shall develop and adopt the content and a format for the report, including the following information:\n(1) student progress and success disaggregated by gender and by ethnicity and race as follows:\n(a) Caucasian, non-Hispanic;\n(b) Hispanic;\n(c) African American;\n(d) American Indian or Alaska Native;\n(e) Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander;\n(f) Asian;\n(g) two or more races; and\n(h) other; provided that if the sample of students in any category enumerated in Subparagraphs (a) through (g) of this paragraph is so small that a student in the sample may be personally identifiable in violation of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the report may combine that sample into the \"other\" category;\n(2) student access and diversity;\n(3) affordability and cost of educational services;\n(4) public and community service by the institution; and\n(5) faculty, compensation and benefits practices, including:\n(a) number and percentage of part-time and full-time faculty;\n(b) per-credit-hour pay rate for full-time instructors or lecturers and per-credit-hour pay rate for part-time faculty;\n(c) percent salary increase for full-time faculty and percent salary increase for part-time faculty; and\n(d) description of the institution's policy for offering benefits to full-time faculty and to part-time faculty.\nC. The department shall make no funding recommendation, capital outlay recommendation, distribution or certification on behalf of any public post-secondary educational institution that has not submitted the information required pursuant to this section.","path":["Chapter 21 - State and Private Education Institutions","ARTICLE 1 General Provisions Relating to State Educational Institutions"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18521/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"d8415f2d482123032619cb3b27093e8f4f9f1e0b8e381733f0896b35d1e02f01","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/21-1-26.6","next":"us-nm/21-1-26.8"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}