UNM students helping to solve lottery scholarship crisis

The New Mexico Lottery Scholarship is running out of cash fast, so Tuesday students at the University of New Mexico gave their ideas on ways to preserve the fund. 

The fund will be broke by next year, according to projections. According to the study, more and more students have become eligible for the lottery scholarship since it began in the late 1990s. Right now, 80 percent of incoming freshmen at UNM meet the scholarship’s requirements. 
On Tuesday, a couple dozen students and a few teachers offered suggestions to keep the fund solvent, such as raising eligibility requirements, increasing needs-based requirements or a combination of both.
 The student group will give their opinion to legislators during the upcoming legislative session in 2013.  


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