Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) The bureau shall adopt by regulation minimum operating standards for an institution that shall reasonably ensure that all of the following occur: (1) The content of each educational program can achieve its stated objective. (2) The institution maintains specific written stand…

(a) If an institution that has not been accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education seeks to offer one or more degree programs, the institution shall satisfy the following requirements in order to be issued a provisional approval to…

(a) When an institution offering at least one degree program has ceased to be accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, the institution shall notify the bureau immediately, but no more than seven days after it ceases to be accred…

Except as exempted in Article 4 (commencing with Section 94874) or in compliance with the transition provisions in Article 2 (commencing with Section 94802), a person shall not open, conduct, or do business as a private postsecondary educational institution in this state without …

An approval to operate shall be granted only after an applicant has presented sufficient evidence to the bureau, and the bureau has independently verified the information provided by the applicant through site visits or other methods deemed appropriate by the bureau, that the app…

(a) The bureau shall adopt by regulation both of the following: (1) The process and procedures whereby an institution seeking approval to operate may apply for and obtain an approval to operate. (2) The process and procedures governing the bureau’s approval and denial of applicat…

Except as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 94890, an approval to operate shall be for a term of five years.

(a) (1) The bureau shall grant an institution that is accredited an approval to operate by means of its accreditation. (2) The bureau shall adopt by regulation the process and procedures whereby an institution that is accredited may apply for and obtain an approval by means of th…

(a) The bureau shall adopt by regulation the process and procedures whereby an institution may obtain a renewal of an approval to operate. (b) To be granted a renewal of an approval to operate, the institution shall demonstrate its continued capacity to meet the minimum operating…

If an agency of this state other than the bureau or of the federal government provides an approval to offer an educational program and the institution already has a valid approval to operate issued by the bureau, that agency’s educational program approval may satisfy the requirem…

(a) (1) An institution approved to operate by the bureau shall collect and retain all of the following data: (A) For each graduate completing a program on or after January 1, 2020: (i) Individual identifying information for each graduate of the institution sufficient to match to …

If an institution intends to make a substantive change to its approval to operate, the institution shall receive prior authorization from the bureau. Except as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 94896, if the institution makes the substantive change without prior bureau autho…

The following changes to an approval to operate are considered substantive changes and require prior authorization: (a) A change in educational objectives, including an addition of a new diploma or a degree educational program unrelated to the approved educational programs offere…

The bureau shall, by January 1, 2011, adopt by regulation the process and procedures whereby an institution shall seek authorization for substantive changes to an approval to operate.

(a) An institution that has been granted an approval to operate by means of accreditation shall only make a substantive change in accordance with the institution’s accreditation standards. (b) The institution shall notify the bureau of the substantive change on a form provided by…

An institution shall not do any of the following: (a) Use, or allow the use of, any reproduction or facsimile of the Great Seal of the State of California on a diploma. (b) Promise or guarantee employment, or otherwise overstate the availability of jobs upon graduation. (c) Adver…

(a) An institution shall not merge classes unless all of the students have received the same amount of instruction. This subdivision does not prevent the placement of students, who are enrolled in different educational programs, in the same class if that class is part of each of …

(a) If an institution offers an educational program in a profession, occupation, trade, or career field that requires licensure in this state, the institution shall have an educational program approval from the appropriate state licensing agency to conduct that educational progra…

(a) Institutions that offer short-term programs designed to be completed in one term or four months, whichever is less, may require payment of all tuition and fees on the first day of instruction. (b) For those programs designed to be greater than four months, an institution shal…

(a) An institution shall maintain records of the name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number of each student who is enrolled in an educational program in that institution. (b) An institution shall maintain, for each student granted a degree or certificate by that institut…

An institution shall maintain, for a period of not less than five years, at its principal place of business in this state, complete and accurate records of all of the following information: (a) The educational programs offered by the institution and the curriculum for each. (b) T…

The recordkeeping requirements of this article shall not apply to an institution that is accredited, if the recordkeeping requirements of the accrediting organization are substantially similar to the recordkeeping requirements of this article, as determined by the bureau.

(a) An institution’s recruiters shall be employees. (b) (1) An institution shall issue identification to each recruiter identifying the recruiter and the institution. (2) The recruiter shall have the issued identification with them while recruiting.

(a) A student shall enroll solely by means of executing an enrollment agreement. The enrollment agreement shall be signed by the student and by an authorized employee of the institution. (b) An enrollment agreement is not enforceable unless all of the following requirements are m…

A student may not waive any term or receipt of any disclosure required by this article.

(a) During the enrollment process, an institution offering educational programs designed to lead to positions in a profession, occupation, trade, or career field requiring licensure in this state shall exercise reasonable care to determine if the student will not be eligible to o…

(a) An enrollment agreement shall be written in language that is easily understood. If English is not the student’s primary language, and the student is unable to understand the terms and conditions of the enrollment agreement, the student shall have the right to obtain a clear e…

An institution shall not require a student to invoke an internal institutional dispute procedure before enforcing any contractual or other legal rights or remedies.

Any information or statement required by this article to be included in the catalog, School Performance Fact Sheet, or enrollment agreement shall be printed in at least the same size font as the majority of the text in that document.

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), before enrollment, an institution shall provide a prospective student, either in writing or electronically, with a current school catalog containing, at a minimum, all of the following: (1) The name, address, telephone number, and, if ap…

Except as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 94909 and Section 94910.5, prior to enrollment, an institution shall provide a prospective student with a current School Performance Fact Sheet containing, at a minimum, the following information, as it relates to the educational p…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a law school that meets the criteria of subdivision (b) shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of this chapter regarding a School Performance Fact Sheet by doing all of the following: (1) Complying with Standard 509 of the American Bar Asso…

An enrollment agreement shall include, at a minimum, all of the following: (a) The name of the institution and the name of the educational program, including the total number of credit hours, clock hours, or other increment required to complete the educational program. (b) A sche…

Prior to the execution of an enrollment agreement, the information required to be disclosed pursuant to subdivisions (a) to (d), inclusive, of Section 94910 shall be signed and dated by the institution and the student. Each of these items shall also be initialed and dated by the …

(a) By January 1, 2020, and permanently thereafter, each institution subject to this chapter that participates in federal student financial aid programs, including, but not necessarily limited to, those programs authorized by Title IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 o…

(a) An institution that maintains an internet website shall provide on that internet website the current version of all of the following: (1) The school catalog. (2) A School Performance Fact Sheet for each educational program offered by the institution. (3) Student brochures off…

An institution extending credit or lending money to an individual for institutional and noninstitutional charges for an educational program shall cause any note, instrument, or other evidence of indebtedness taken in connection with that extension of credit or loan to be conspicu…

A note, instrument, or other evidence of indebtedness relating to payment for an educational program is void and not enforceable unless, at the time of execution of the note, instrument, or other evidence of indebtedness, the institution held an approval to operate or valid out-o…

In making consumer loans to students, an institution shall also comply with the requirements of the Federal Truth in Lending Act pursuant to Title 15 of the United States Code.

(a) The bureau’s administration of this article or Article 13 (commencing with Section 94919) shall not preclude the authority of the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation over, and application of the California Consumer Financial Protection Law to, any “covered perso…

(a) An institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs complies with this article by complying with applicable regulations of the federal student financial aid programs under Title IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965. (b) The institution sha…

An institution that does not participate in the federal student financial aid programs shall do all of the following: (a) The institution shall advise each student that a notice of cancellation shall be in writing, and that a withdrawal may be effectuated by the student’s written…

An institution offering an educational program for which the refund calculations set forth in this article cannot be utilized because of the unique way in which the educational program is structured, may petition the bureau for an alternative method of calculating tuition refunds…

A student may not waive any provision of this article.

(a) The Student Tuition Recovery Fund relieves or mitigates economic loss suffered by a student while enrolled in an institution not exempt from this article pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 94874), who, at the time of the student’s enrollment, was a California resi…

(a) The bureau shall determine the amount of Student Tuition Recovery Fund assessments to be collected for each student. (b) All assessments collected pursuant to this article shall be credited to the Student Tuition Recovery Fund, along with any accrued interest, for the purpose…

(a) The amount in the Student Tuition Recovery Fund shall not exceed twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) at any time. (b) If the bureau has temporarily stopped collecting the Student Tuition Recovery Fund assessments because the fund has approached the twenty-five-million d…

At least 30 days prior to closing, the institution shall notify the bureau in writing of its intention to close. The notice shall be accompanied by a closure plan, which shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, all of the following: (a) A plan for providing teach-outs of…

(a) An institution’s approval to operate is automatically terminated on the date of closure or when its exemption from this chapter has been verified by the bureau. (b) An institution that does not identify a date of closure shall have one selected by the bureau. (c) A terminated…

An institution shall be considered in default of the enrollment agreement when an educational program is discontinued or canceled or the institution closes prior to completion of the educational program. When an institution is in default, student institutional charges may be refu…