The purpose of the New Mexico cooperative education program is to provide an opportunity for students in New Mexico post-secondary educational institutions to combine academic and employment experience by creating and expanding cooperative education programs in New Mexico colleges and universities, thereby enhancing the educational benefits and job training received by students who participate in cooperative education. The program shall encourage cooperative education for students from groups most severely underrepresented in specified fields of study or employment, particularly women and minorities in engineering. History: Laws 1988, ch. 117, § 1; 1993, ch. 236, § 1. The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, added the second sentence.
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