Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 206 - Education, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0002 - General Agency, Board or Commission Rules › Chapter 30 - PRIVATE SCHOOL REGISTRATION / LICENSING FOR PRIVATE DEGREE GRANTING POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS › Section 30-5 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) "Accredited" means accredited by an
				accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of
				Education.
(b) "Agent" means any
				person representing a private degree granting post secondary education
				institution, who solicits business or students in any public school within the
				State. This includes those individuals employed to solicit resident students by
				schools or institutions located outside the State which are similar to schools
				or institutions specified under Wyo. Stat. §
									
										21-2-402.
(c) "Applicant" means any private degree
				granting post secondary education institution seeking registration by the
				Department under these rules.
(d)
				"Attorney General" means the Attorney General of the State of
				Wyoming.
(e) "Candidate
				institution" means a private degree granting post secondary education
				institution licensed to operate or to business under Wyo. Stat.§
									
										21-2-401 et seq. prior to July 1, 2006 that
				is a candidate for accreditation or institution otherwise in the application
				process that has applied for accreditation with an accrediting agency
				recognized by the United States Department of Education and is being considered
				for candidacy status for accreditation by that association and is in the
				process of gathering information and performing activities requested by that
				association to complete the application process.
(f) "Degree" means any award, earned or
				honorary, conferred with the designation of associate, baccalaureate, master,
				professional, specialist or doctorate.
(g) "Department" means the Wyoming Department
				of Education as established by Wyo. Stat. §
									
										21-2-204.
(h) "Distance education" means the teacher
				and student are physically separated by time or space and connected by means of
				communications source used to provide synchronous or asynchronous
				instruction.
(i) "Private degree
				granting post secondary education institution" means any institution, all
				trade, correspondence, distance education, technical, business, or other
				private schools, offering a degree, earned or honorary, conferred with the
				designation of associate, baccalaureate, master, professional, specialist or
				doctorate; may be referred to as "institution" in this document.
(j) "Proof of accreditation" means a
				statement of affiliation status, a certificate of accreditation, or formal
				notification from a recognized accreditation agency as accepted by the
				Department.
(k) "Prospective
				institutions" means an accredited private degree granting post secondary
				education institution that has not obtained registration from the Department
				that enters with the intent operating and doing business in the state of
				Wyoming.
(l) "Recognized
				accreditation agency" means an accrediting agency recognized by the United
				States Department of Education.
(m)
				"Registration" means a non-transferable certificate granted and issued by the
				Wyoming Department of Education to a private degree granting post secondary
				education institution.
(n)
				"Superintendent" means the Wyoming State Superintendent of Public Instruction
				as established by the Wyo. Const. Art. 7, §
									14
				and Wyo. Stat. §
									
										21-2-201.