206-1 Wyo. Code R. §§ 1-5 - Definitions

(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).

(j) "Standards" where not otherwise defined in context means the standard or directives established or used by the State Board to implement and clarify these rules.

(k) "State Board" means Wyoming State Board of Education.

(l) "State Department" means Wyoming Department of Education.

(m) "Subject" means units of learning into which a course is divided.

Notes

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