A. Upon request from a public high school or school district superintendent in New Mexico, a public post-secondary educational institution shall provide a report of students who enroll in the institution within three years of graduating from that high school or leaving that high school without enrolling in another high school or earning a high school equivalency credential. Information in the reports may be used by the high schools and public post-secondary educational institutions to improve instruction, student preparation and advisement.

B. The higher education department, in consultation with the public education department and representatives of public high schools and public post-secondary educational institutions, shall prescribe the form of the reports. Reports shall not include any personally identifiable student information. The reports shall be designed to show advanced placement by subject, total credits earned, grade point averages, retention from fall to spring semester of the first year of college and frequency and patterns of remedial or development courses being taken.

C. The higher education department shall be provided with copies of the reports.

History: Laws 2009, ch. 7, § 1; 2015, ch. 122, § 5.

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, replaced the term "general education development certificate" with "high school equivalency credential" in the provision relating to annual reports by public post-secondary educational institutions regarding enrollment of high school graduates; and in Subsection A, after "high school or earning a", deleted "general educational development certificate" and added "high school equivalency credential".