Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3332 - State Board of Career Colleges and Schools › Chapter 3332-1 - General Provisions › Section 3332-1-02 - Definition of terms

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) "Ability to benefit" means any student
			 who, prior to admission, does not have a high school diploma or its equivalent,
			 the general equivalency diploma (G.E.D.), and who is subject to the ability to
			 benefit criteria of the U.S. department of education, and all applicable rules
			 of the state board.
(B) "Agent"
			 means an employee of a school whose primary duties performed include
			 distribution of literature or information on behalf of a person offering a
			 program, and the solicitation of prospective students in Ohio to enroll in a
			 program.
(C) "Associate degree"
			 means the credential awarded by a school upon the successful completion of an
			 associate degree program. The program must contain a minimum of ninety quarter
			 credit hours or sixty semester hours.
(D) "Advanced degree" means the credential
			 awarded by a school upon the successful completion of a baccalaureate, masters,
			 or doctorate degree program which meets the requirements of the Ohio board of
			 regents
(E) "Calendar week"
			 means seven consecutive calendar days.
(F) "Board" means the
			 state board of proprietary school registration or the state board of career
			 colleges and schools.
(G) "Certificate"
			 means the credential awarded by a school upon the successful completion of a
			 certificate program. The certificate program generally consists of one or more
			 technical courses usually completed in one to twenty-six weeks, normally with a
			 single skill objective and a maximum of thirty-six
			 quarter or twent-four semester credit hours.
(H) "Certificate of
			 registration" means a certificate issued by the state board of career colleges
			 and schools to the owner or operator of a private career school located within
			 or outside the state of Ohio, that permits the school to solicit students and
			 offer and maintain a program in Ohio.
(I) "Clock hour" means
			 for purpose of instruction, a period of sixty minutes with a minimum of fifty
			 minutes of classroom work.
(J) "College" means a
			 school possessing a certificate of registration authorizing at least one
			 associate or advanced degree program.
(K) "Course" means a
			 unit of learning which is an integral part of a program of instruction.
(L) "Credit-hour laboratory" means one credit shall be
			 awarded for every two laboratory hours in a week of the quarter or semester
			 when the laboratory experience is supplemented by out-of-class assignments.
			 When out-of-class assignments are not required, the ratio will be one credit
			 for every three laboratory hours.
(M) "Credit-hour
			 non-laboratory" means one credit shall be awarded for each one hour scheduled
			 in the classroom within a week, quarter, or semester, provided the student is
			 required to devote at least two hours out-of-class assignments for each class
			 hour scheduled.
(N) "Diploma" means the credential awarded by a school
			 upon the successful completion of a diploma program. The diploma program
			 generally consists of more than six hundred but less than fifteen hundred clock
			 hours; or more than 
								thirty six but less than ninety quarter credit
			 hours; or more than twenty-seven but less than sixty semester hours
(O)
			 "Director" means the person directly responsible for the operational management
			 of a school.
(P) "Full-time student" means a student who is
			 scheduled to attend a minimum of twenty or more clock hours or twelve or more
			 credit hours per week.
(Q) "General education
			 course" means a unit of learning non-technical in nature, which is an integral
			 part of a program the content of which is drawn from oral communication,
			 written communication, social studies, mathematics,
			 natural sciences and the humanities.
(R) "Institutional
			 scholarship or grant" means any scholarship, tuition credit, grant or other
			 financial aid program offered by a registered school that uses institutional
			 funds or other institutional credits to reduce a student's tuition and fee
			 obligations. All institutional scholarships or grants must be approved in
			 accordance with rule
			 3332-1-11
			 of the Administrative Code.
(S) "Gross annual
			 tuition income" means the tuition income (minus tuition refunds) received by a
			 registered school in approved programs as computed at the end of the school's
			 accounting year.
(T) "Major" means a program of study within a degree
			 program that includes a minimum of twenty per cent of the program's total hours
			 in the specific discipline intended to be named as the major in the program's
			 title. At the same time, the balance between general education, basic and
			 technical courses must be maintained in the program.
(U)
								 "Non-technical
			 course" means any course in the curriculum that is not technical in nature and
			 includes general education courses, basic courses, or other related
			 courses.
(V) "Person" means
			 an individual, corporation, partnership, association, limited liability company
			 or any other type of business organization.
(W) "Primary duty" or "primary job duty"
			 means more than fifty per cent of a person's assigned job responsibilities.
(X) "Private career school" means
			 a career college, proprietary school, person or other organization that offers
			 programs that require registration pursuant to Chapter 3332. of the Revised
			 Code.
(Y) "Proficiency in subject
			 matter discipline for faculty members assigned to teach the general study
			 portion of any degree program" means proficiency in subject matter discipline
			 evidenced by a minimum of fifteen quarter credit hours (or semester credit
			 hours equivalent) of work in the discipline, taken at the undergraduate or
			 graduate level, or a combination of the two levels.
(Z) "Proprietary school" means a career
			 college, school, person, or other organization that offers programs that
			 require registration pursuant to Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code.
(AA) "Quarter" means an academic time span of
			 ten to 
								twelve weeks.
(BB) "Semester" means an academic time span
			 of 
								fifteen to 
								eighteen weeks.
(CC) "School" means a school, career college,
			 person or other organization that offers programs that require registration
			 under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code.
(DD) "Students enrolled" means the number of
			 students who have started class and attended at least one day.
(EE) "Teach-out" means the process whereby a
			 school fulfills its educational and contractual obligations to currently
			 enrolled students prior to voluntarily closing. Among its options are a
			 cessation of enrollments with continued operation until present students are
			 graduated; or making an agreement with a school or a group of schools, in the
			 same geographic area, to absorb its students at no additional cost to the
			 affected students, except as may be permissible under regular financial aid
			 eligibility requirements.
(FF)
			 "Technical course" means a unit of learning which yields skills, knowledge, and
			 appreciation essential to the specific occupation for which the program was
			 designed.
Effective:
				11/1/2011
R.C. 119.032 review dates:
				06/17/2011 and
				09/30/2016
Promulgated
				Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3332.031
Rule
				Amplifies: 3332.031
Prior Effective Dates: 12/11/1976, 4/16/1990
				(Emer.), 7/12/1990, 7/1/1991, 10/14/1994, 10/1/2002, 7/1/2009