Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 871 - Workforce Development Department › Chapter 24 - Claims and Benefits › Rule 871-24.51 - School Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
(1)
			 Educational institution means public, nonprofit, private and parochial schools in
			 which participants, trainees, or students are offered an organized course of
			 study or training designed to transfer to them knowledge, skills, information,
			 doctrines, attitudes or abilities from, by or under the guidance of an instructor
			 or teacher. It is approved, licensed or issued a permit to operate as a school by
			 the department of education or other government agency that is authorized within
			 the state to approve, license or issue a permit for the operation of a school.
			 The course of study or training which it offers may be academic, technical,
			 trade, or preparation for gainful employment in a recognized
			 occupation.
(2) Educational service
			 agency means a governmental agency or governmental entity which is established
			 and operated exclusively for the purpose of providing educational services to one
			 or more educational institutions.
(3)
			 Employment definitions.
a. Professional
			 employees including educational service agency employees means persons who are
			 employed in an instructional, research or principal administrative capacity as
			 explained below:
(1) Instructional: Services
			 performed for an educational institution which consist of teaching in formal
			 classroom and seminar situations, tutoring, or lecturing in the activity of
			 imparting knowledge; or of services which consist of directing or supervising the
			 instructional activities of others; or services which consist of counseling,
			 advising, or otherwise determining curriculum, courses, and academic pursuits for
			 students.
(2) Research: Services
			 performed for an educational institution which consist of careful and systematic
			 study and investigation in a field of science and knowledge, undertaken to
			 establish facts or principles. The work performed is in a predominantly
			 intellectual field or artistic endeavor which is varied in character and requires
			 the constant exercise of discretion and judgment in performance. The work further
			 requires advanced knowledge in a field of science or learning customarily
			 acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and
			 study.
(3) Principal administrative:
			 Services performed for an educational institution which consist of managing the
			 educational institution or one of its major divisions or departments. Such
			 services include the responsibility for establishing and administering policies,
			 rules, and regulations which have major impact on the overall operations and
			 functions of the educational institutions or one of its major divisions or
			 departments. Work and activities are performed under general direction and broad
			 objectives and missions, with the authority to determine goals and the techniques
			 and methods of operations of the educational institution or one of its major
			 divisions or departments. The duties performed by the individual rather than the
			 title held should determine whether the prohibition applies. Neither providing a
			 title nor withholding it should be controlling in itself.