The Minority Doctoral Loan Repayment Assistance Program provides educational loan repayment assistance to eligible faculty employed within New Mexico's public colleges and universities. The purpose of the Minority Doctoral Loan Repayment Assistance Program is to increase the number of ethnic minorities and women available to teach engineering, physical or life sciences, mathematics and other academic disciplines in which ethnic minorities and women are demonstrably underrepresented in New Mexico's colleges and universities. Applicants must have completed a doctoral degree in an eligible doctoral field of study (engineering, physical or life sciences, mathematics and other academic disciplines in which certain ethnic minorities or women are demonstrably underrepresented in the teaching faculty at the public college or university where the applicant is employed). They must be hired by a public post-secondary educational institution in New Mexico for a full time, tenure-track faculty position. Preference shall be given to applicants who have completed a postsecondary degree at Eastern New Mexico University, New Mexico Highlands University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Military Institute, New Mexico State University, University of New Mexico, or Western New Mexico University. The recipient shall sign a contract agreeing to teach in a full-time faculty position at a public college or university in New Mexico for a minimum of one year for each year a minority doctoral loan repayment assistance grant is awarded. Please visit the award's website or contact the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education for more information.