New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter II - Regulations of the Commissioner › Subchapter A - Higher and Professional Education › Part 50 - General › Section 50.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Subchapter:
(a) Commissioner means Commissioner of
				  Education.
(b) Department means the
				  Education Department of the State of New York.
(c) Adequate, approved, equivalent,
				  satisfactory, sufficient, mean adequate, approved, equivalent, satisfactory,
				  sufficient, respectively in the judgment of the commissioner.
(d) Higher education means postsecondary
				  education, and includes the work of colleges, junior colleges, community
				  colleges, two-year colleges, universities, professional and technical schools,
				  and other degree-granting institutions.
(e) Qualifying certificate means a
				  certificate indicating that the holder has the education required by law and by
				  Part 52 of this Subchapter for admission to the study of a
				  profession.
(f) Approved secondary
				  school course means a course that meets the minimum requirements set forth
				  under Part 100 of this Title, or the equivalent as determined by the
				  commissioner.
(g) Course means an
				  organized series of instructional and learning activities dealing with a
				  subject.
(h) Registration means
				  approval of a curriculum in an institution of higher education for general
				  purposes, for admission to professional practice, or for acceptance toward a
				  credential issued by the department or by the institution.
(i) Curriculum or program means the formal
				  educational requirements necessary to qualify for certificates or degrees. A
				  curriculum or program includes general education or specialized study in depth
				  in a particular field, or both.
(j)
				  Certificate means a credential issued by an institution in recognition of the
				  completion of a curriculum other than one leading to a degree.
(k) College means a higher educational
				  institution authorized by the Regents to confer degrees.
(l) University means a higher educational
				  institution offering a range of registered undergraduate and graduate curricula
				  in the liberal arts and sciences and doctoral programs registered in at least
				  three of the following discipline areas: agriculture, biological sciences,
				  business, education, engineering, fine arts, health professions, humanities,
				  physical sciences, and social sciences.
(m) Junior college or two-year college means
				  a higher educational institution which is authorized by the Regents to offer
				  undergraduate curricula below the baccalaureate level which normally lead to
				  the associate degree.
(n) Credit
				  means a unit of academic award applicable towards a degree offered by the
				  institution.
(o) Semester hour
				  means a credit, point, or other unit granted for the satisfactory completion of
				  a course which requires at least 15 hours (of 50 minutes each) of instruction
				  and at least 30 hours of supplementary assignments, except as otherwise
				  provided pursuant to section
				  52.2(c)(4) 
				  of this Subchapter. This basic measure shall be adjusted proportionately to
				  translate the value of other academic calendars and formats of study in
				  relation to the credit granted for study during the two semesters that comprise
				  an academic year.
(p) Division
				  means an organizational unit of the college in which faculty are grouped for
				  administrative and academic purposes.
(q) Principal center means the location of
				  the principal administrative offices and instructional facilities of a college,
				  university, or other degree-granting institution, as defined by the
				  institution's officers. In exceptional cases and with the approval of the
				  commissioner, an institution may designate more than one principal center for
				  an institution that offers curricula leading to degrees and that is part of a
				  public or independent multi-institution system, principal center means the
				  location of the institution's principal administrative offices and
				  instructional facilities, as defined by the institution's officers, but not the
				  location of the system's central administration.
(r) Branch campus means a unit of an
				  institution located at a place other than the institution's principal center or
				  another degree-granting institution, at which the institution offers one or
				  more curricula leading to a certificate or degree.
(s) Extension center means a unit of an
				  institution located at a place other than the institution's principal center or
				  another degree-granting institution, at which the institution does not offer
				  any curricula leading to a certificate or degree, but at which the institution
				  either conducts more than 15 courses for credit or has more than 350 course
				  registrations for credit in any academic year.
(t) Extension site means a unit of an
				  institution located at a place other than the institution's principal center or
				  another degree-granting institution, at which the institution does not offer
				  any curricula leading to a certificate or degree, and at which the institution
				  conducts no more than 15 courses for credit and has no more than 350 course
				  registrations for credit in any academic year.
(u) Regents postsecondary education region
				  means a geographic area of the State consisting of two or more contiguous
				  counties that includes a range of degree-granting institutions offering, in the
				  aggregate, curricula from the associate degree through the doctoral level and
				  having, in the aggregate, sufficient enrollment to form an efficient
				  educational planning group, and that is so designated by the Regents.
(v) Regents regional advisory council means
				  an organization that includes chief executive officers who are representative
				  of the degree-granting institutions in the region, and representatives of the
				  general public, and that is so designated by the Regents.
(w) Disaster means the occurrence or imminent
				  threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property
				  resulting from any natural, technological, radiological or man-made causes,
				  such as fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, high water, landslide,
				  mudslide, windstorm, wave action, epidemic, air contamination, drought,
				  explosion, water contamination, chemical accident, war or civil disturbance as
				  declared by State or local governments pursuant to sections 24 or
				  28  of the Executive Law.