Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 206 - Education, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0002 - General Agency, Board or Commission Rules › Chapter 1 - PRIVATE SCHOOL LICENSING FOR POST SECONDARY PROPRIETARY SCHOOLS › Section 1-5 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) "Administrator" means an administrative
				officer in charge of school unit(s) or operations(s).
(b) "Agent" means any person owning any
				interest in, employed by, or representing for remuneration or other
				consideration a private proprietary school located within or without this state
				who enrolls or who, in places other than the principal school premises, offers
				or attempts to secure the enrollment of any person within this state for
				education in a school.
(c)
				"Attorney General" means the Attorney General of the State of
				Wyoming.
(d) "Commencing
				Operations" means soliciting or attempting to solicit for student enrollment,
				which includes an out-of-state resident agent making such solicitations of
				students for entrance into the out-of-state programs.
(e) "Course" means a subject or a group of
				subjects organized for instructional and administrative purposes, whether
				conducted in person, by mail, or by any other method.
(f) "Curriculum" means a set of courses
				offered in logical sequence of such nature and quality to reasonably assure
				that the students will develop the job skills and knowledge necessary for
				obtaining employment in the occupational area for which the instruction is
				offered.
(g) "Full Time Equivalent"
				(FTE) means that students attending short term academic training, such as real
				estate schools, income tax preparation schools, etc., may be evaluated in terms
				of total instructional hours, for bonding purposes. The Department of Education
				will determine the number of instructional hours equal to one Full Time
				Equivalent (FTE).
(h) "License"
				means a non-transferable certificate issued by the State Department to a
				private school located within this state or located outside the state, but
				whose agent solicits students from within the state in the name of such school,
				which permits the school to solicit, offer, and maintain a course(s) of
				instruction or study in compliance with the provisions of the Act and the rules
				and regulations of the State Board promulgated pursuant to the Act.
(i) "Post Secondary Proprietary School" means
				any business enterprise operated either for a profit or for nonprofit which
				maintains a place of business within this state, and which offers or maintains
				a course(s) of instructions or study, or at which place of business such
				course(s) of instruction or study, correspondence, or any combination of these
				to a person(s) for the purpose of training or preparing such person(s) for a
				field of endeavor.
Included in the definition is any business enterprise
				  incorporated or unincorporated operating for profit or nonprofit which
				  maintains a place of business outside of this state but whose agent solicits
				  students from within this state or which offers or maintains a course(s) of
				  instruction or study, or at which place of business such course(s) of
				  instruction or study is available through classroom instruction, laboratory
				  study, correspondence or combination of these to persons for the purpose of
				  training or preparing such persons for a field of endeavor.
(i) The definition of "post secondary
				proprietary school" shall not include the following:
(A) a course(s) of instruction or study
				sponsored by an employer for training and preparation for his own employees.
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(B)
				conferences, workshops, institutes or courses of study sponsored either jointly
				or independently by recognized trade, business, or professional organizations,
				government agencies or political subdivisions for the benefit of the members of
				such organizations.
(C) a school
				which is regulated and licensed pursuant to an act of the Wyoming Legislature
				governing specific trades or professions.
(D) any school, college, university, or other
				institution offering any post secondary degree. (Institutions of Higher
				Learning are addressed in Chapter 30 of the Wyoming Department of Education
				Rules and Regulations).