Illinois Administrative Code › Title 71 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, FACILITIES AND REAL PROPERTY › Part 45 - JOINT RULES OF THE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD: INDEPENDENT COLLEGES CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANT PROGRAM › Section 45.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Private Colleges and Universities Capital
				Distribution Formula Act [30 ILCS 769/25].
"Board" means the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
"Capital Projects" means the
construction, repair,
				renovation, and miscellaneous capital improvements, including the planning,
				engineering, acquisition, reconstruction, remodeling, improvement, repair and
				installation of capital facilities and costs of planning, supplies, equipment,
				materials, services, and all other required expenses.
[30 ILCS
				425/4(c)] Capital projects do not
				include the following:
The use of funds for purposes barred by the Act;
The repair, renovation or construction of facilities used for
				sectarian instruction, religious worship or a school or department of divinity,
				or in which a majority of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a
				religious mission. For the purposes of this grant, a "school or department of
				divinity" means an institution, or a department of an institution, whose
				program is specifically for the education of students to prepare them to become
				ministers of religion or to enter upon some other religious vocation, or to
				prepare them to teach theological subjects; and
The repair, renovation or construction of the proportional
				share of joint use facilities that either:
provide personal residential space for owners, administrators,
				or persons who are not students of the institution; or
provide office, retail or storage space used for business
				activities unrelated to the educational mission of the institution.
"CDB" means the Capital Development Board.
"Equity Plan" means a plan
specific to an institution
				to increase the access, retention, completion, and student loan repayment rates
				of minorities, rural students, adult students, women, and individuals with
				disabilities who are traditionally underrepresented in education programs and
				activities
. [110 ILCS 205/9.16]
"GATA" means the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act
				[30 ILCS
				708].
"Grant Period" means the time during which the grantee may
				incur new obligations to carry out the work authorized under the State award.
				The Board includes the start and end dates of the grant period in the
				award.
"Grantee" means, for the purposes of this Part, an institution
				of higher education located in Illinois that carries out a State award as a
				recipient of the Independent Colleges Capital Investment Grant Program.
"Independent Colleges" has the same meaning as prescribed in
				Section 25-5 of the Act. In addition, non-public, non-profit institutions that
				have been in continuous operation and granted degrees within the State of
				Illinois before the effective date of the Private College Act, July 17, 1945,
				[110 ILCS
				1005/2] or the Academic Degree Act, August 14, 1961,
				[110 ILCS
				1010/4] and have not modified the business entity
				since the effective dates of those Acts. Institutions that are solely
				authorized under the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act [105 ILCS
				426] are not independent colleges for purposes of the
				Act.
"Independent colleges"
does not include: any
				institution that primarily or exclusively provided online education services as
				of the fall 2017 term.
(Section 25-5 of the Act) For the purposes of
				this definition, primarily or exclusively provided online education services
				means greater than 75 percent of the courses offered by the institution;
				and
Any institution primarily used for sectarian instruction, as a
				place of religious teaching or worship or for any religious denomination or the
				training of ministers, priests, rabbis, or other professional persons in the
				field of religion; for the purposes of this definition, primarily used means
				greater than 75 percent of the students are enrolled in theology and religious
				vocation programs.