California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 7.5 - Private Postsecondary Education › Chapter 3 - Institutional Operating Standards › Article 1 - Minimum Operating Standards › Section 71730 - Administration

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Each
				  institution shall have a chief executive officer, a chief operating officer and
				  chief academic officer. One person may serve more than one function.
(b) The duties, responsibilities, and
				  performance evaluation criteria for each administrator shall be set forth in a
				  personnel manual or other writing maintained by the institution.
(c) An institution with one or more branch
				  locations shall establish written institutional policies, consistent with
				  subdivision (d), regarding the division and sharing of administrative
				  responsibilities between the central administration at the main location and
				  the administration at the branch locations.
(d) The administrative staffing at each
				  branch location shall reflect the purposes, size, and educational operations at
				  that location and at any satellite location for which the branch has
				  administrative responsibilities.
(e) The chief academic officer shall possess
				  a degree or equivalent acceptable experience at least equal to the highest
				  qualifications required of the institution's faculty. Chief academic officers
				  employed on the date of implementation of these regulations, who do not meet
				  the qualifications for their positions, shall have three years to earn the
				  necessary degrees or experience to qualify them for their position.
(f) The institution shall employ
				  administrative personnel who have the expertise to ensure the achievement of
				  the institution's mission and objectives and the operation of the educational
				  programs.
(g) The institution shall
				  not employ or continue to employ any administrative personnel who were
				  adjudicated in a judicial or administrative proceeding as having violated any
				  provision of the Act or this chapter or as having committed any act that would
				  constitute grounds for the denial of a license under Section
				  480
				  of the Business and Professions Code.
1. New
					 section filed 8-17-92 as an emergency; operative 8-17-92 (Register 92, No. 34).
					 A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL 2-13-93 pursuant to
					 Education Code section
					 94337(a)
					 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
2. Certificate of Compliance as to 8-17-92 order transmitted to
					 OAL on 2-3-93; disapproved by OAL on 3-24-93 (Register 93, No.
					 14).
3. New section refiled 4-12-93 as an emergency; operative
					 4-12-93 (Register 93, No. 16). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted
					 to OAL 10-9-93 pursuant to Education Code section
					 94337(a)
					 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
4. Certificate of Compliance as to 4-12-93 order transmitted to
					 OAL on 10-6-93; disapproved by OAL on 11-22-93 (Register 93, No.
					 49).
5. New section refiled 11-17-93 as an emergency; operative
					 11-17-93 (Register 93, No. 47). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted
					 to OAL by 5-16-94 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on
					 the following day.
6. Certificate of Compliance as to 11-17-93 order
					 transmitted to OAL with amendments 3-11-94 and filed 4-19-94 (Register 94, No.
					 16).
7. Amendment of subsections (f) and (g) and NOTE filed 2-1-2010
					 as an emergency; operative 2-1-2010 (Register 2010, No. 6). A Certificate of
					 Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 8-2-2010 or emergency language will be
					 repealed by operation of law on the following day.
8. Amendment of
					 subsections (f) and (g) and NOTE refiled 7-30-2010 as an emergency; operative
					 7-30-2010 (Register 2010, No. 31). A Certificate of Compliance must be
					 transmitted to OAL by 10-28-2010 or emergency language will be repealed by
					 operation of law on the following day.
9. Editorial correction of
					 HISTORIES 1 and 3 (Register 2010, No. 34).
10. Certificate of
					 Compliance as to 7-30-2010 order transmitted to OAL 10-7-2010 and filed
					 11-18-2010 (Register 2010, No. 47).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						94803,
						94877 and
						94885,
						Education Code. Reference: Section
						94885,
						Education Code; and Section
						480,
						Business and Professions Code.