Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 715 - HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMISSION › Division 45 - PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOLS › Section 715-045-0220 - Proficiency-based Programs

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) For
			 purposes of this rule, a 'practical operation' is the demonstration and
			 application of a relevant skill or group of skills necessary for work in
			 barbering, hair design, esthetics, or nail technology. For the purposes of this
			 rule, the 'model curriculum' is a curriculum established and maintained by the
			 Higher Education Coordinating Commission which details mandatory curricular
			 requirements, including, but not limited to practical operations requirements,
			 safety and sanitation requirements, and career development requirements
			 established in this rule. The model curriculum is available for review by all
			 schools.
(2) As an alternative to
			 the minimum hourly training requirements specified in OAR 715-045-0200, a
			 proficiency-based training program that is self-paced may be approved by the
			 Executive Director when the school has developed written program requirements,
			 including:
(a) Clearly defined student
			 performance objectives that measure levels of performance for each practical
			 operation and the knowledge required for students to successfully pass the
			 appropriate practitioner licensing examination and successfully and safely
			 perform on members of the public all services allowed in the scope of practice
			 of the practitioner license;
(b) No
			 earlier than May 1, 2019 and no later than July 1, 2019, continuing to be in
			 effect thereafter, a minimum number of practical operations in the student's
			 chosen course of study, in accordance with the model curriculum as developed by
			 the Commission:
(A) For hair Design; 455
			 practical operations.
(B) For
			 barbering; 465 practical operations.
(C) For esthetics; 220 practical
			 operations.
(D) For nail
			 Technology; 70 practical operations.
(c) A student enrolled in a program at the
			 time subsection (1) (b) of this rule takes effect shall be allowed to complete
			 the program in which they are enrolled under the terms for their original
			 enrollment agreement, unless a rider to the enrollment agreement, signed by
			 both the student and an authorized representative of the school, is executed,
			 specifying that the student agrees to complete such program under different
			 requirements. Before a rider to the enrollment agreement is executed, the
			 school shall:
(A) Review student's current
			 program requirements in comparison to the revised program
			 requirements.
(B) Provide the
			 student information in writing about which set of program requirements may be
			 most beneficial to student, in terms of length of time to complete, cost, and
			 use of federal financial aid.
(C)
			 Provide student with a program that gives credit for applicable hours already
			 earned and practical operations completed and outlines a revised course of
			 study that meets the minimum requirements.
(d) Determine if cost differences, if any,
			 between the student's current program and the revised program result in an
			 overpayment on behalf of the student, and issue any necessary refund to the
			 student, except as provided by federal law or other controlling statute or
			 regulation.
(e) Individual progress
			 records maintained for the purpose of monitoring each student's progress
			 through the instructional program and recording and verifying actual hours of
			 instruction, number of practical operations and performance achievement by each
			 student;
(f) A curriculum design,
			 which the Executive Director determines to be comparable to the Commission
			 adopted model curriculum, showing a logical progression of academic and
			 practical training experiences leading to the levels of student performance
			 required for graduation and certification;
(g) The identification of specific levels of
			 competence to be achieved by each student prior to any clinic lab experience
			 that will ensure students have achieved sufficient skill and knowledge to
			 successfully and safely perform assigned practical operations on members of the
			 general public;
(h) A diagnosis of
			 each student's beginning level of competency and a prescriptive instructional
			 program for specific competency completion with projected timelines resulting
			 in an estimated program completion date; a copy to be given to the student on
			 commencement of the program and on file in the student's personal file.
			 Revisions to the prescriptive program must be based on recorded performance
			 evaluations and as a result of negotiations between the school and student.
			 Copies of revisions must be given to the student and on file in the student's
			 academic file;
(i) Assurances that
			 the instructional program will determine the type of assignments that students
			 receive for the clinic lab; that, as nearly as possible, the clinic lab
			 assignments reflect the emphasis of the student's current and cumulative theory
			 and laboratory experiences;
(j)
			 Both or either school catalogs and student enrollment agreements, that show the
			 average time for students to complete the requirements for the various
			 certificate programs during the previous reporting period;
(k) An annual report at the time of
			 relicensing to the Commission showing the actual total hours of instruction
			 received by each student who has completed or left the school during the
			 previous reporting period;
(l)
			 Assurances that no student's competency-based prescriptive training program
			 will be significantly altered or regulated in any way, once the student and the
			 school administration have signed a competency-based agreement; and
(m) When the school informs a student that
			 he/she is competent, the student may elect to leave the school with a diploma
			 at that time or stay in school until he/she has been trained for an amount of
			 time equal to the training hours listed in OAR 715-045-0200(1), and no
			 additional tuition may be charged. The student shall notify the school of
			 his/her decision within two weeks of notice of competency.