New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 6A - EDUCATION › Chapter 19 - CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND STANDARDS › Subchapter 7 - PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOLS › Section 6A:19-7.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms shall have the following
				  meanings when used in this subchapter unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Advisory board" means a group selected by the private career
				  school consisting of three or more experts proficient in the subject area of
				  the curriculum to be taught, whose responsibility is to evaluate the curriculum
				  for reliability and validity and to make recommendations for revisions, if
				  necessary.
"Certificate of approval" means the document that provides
				  evidence of the private career school's approval to operate issued by the
				  Commissioners of the Departments of Education and Labor and Workforce
				  Development, as prescribed in
				  34:15C-10.1 and more fully
				  delineated in this subchapter.
"Clock hour" means 50 to 60 minutes of class lecture,
				  recitation, faculty supervised laboratory, shop training, clinical experience,
				  and/or internship in a 60-minute period. It also means 60 minutes of
				  preparation in a correspondence course or distance learning as defined by
				  Section 600.2, Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended.
"Course" means an organization of subject matter and related
				  learning experiences designed to meet an occupational objective offered for the
				  instruction of students on a systematic basis. It does not mean workshops,
				  seminars, or conferences that last no longer than three days and, although
				  designed to teach specific skills that may be applicable in a work setting and
				  may incidentally lead to or enhance employment opportunities, are not
				  sufficient in themselves to be considered a component of an instructional
				  program.
"Director" means the director of the private career school
				  who is on site during the hours of operation and who is responsible for the
				  total administration of only one school site.
"Instructional program" means the planned sequence of
				  courses, services, or activities designed to meet educational and employment
				  objectives.
"Internship" means a period of supervised practical training
				  that is part of an approved program and offered at a site other than the
				  private career school and meets the following criteria:
1. The internship is of a fixed duration, established prior
				  to the outset of the internship;
2. The internship experience is for the benefit of the
				  student;
3. The employer that provides the training derives no
				  immediate advantage from the activities of the student and on occasion its
				  operations may actually be impeded; and
4. The student does not displace regular employees of the
				  internship site, but works under close supervision of existing staff.
"Private career school" is a privately owned postsecondary
				  school that offers one or more occupational training programs and is a
				  qualifying school as defined by
				  P.L.
				  2005, c. 354.