Part 3 University of the State of New York; State Education Department

(a) The commissioner with the approval of the Regents shall appoint the following councils. These councils shall serve as advisory bodies with which the officers of the department may consult regarding any matters involving institutions in the University or registered in the depa…

(a) The commissioner with the approval of the Regents shall appoint a committee on geographic names of five members. The committee shall determine, subject to approval by the Regents, place names in New York State pursuant to section 174 of the Education Law. (b) The committee sh…

(a) The Board of Regents, upon nomination of the Commissioner of Education, shall appoint a State professional standards and practices board for teaching to consist of 30 members. The board shall serve in a consultative and advisory capacity to the Regents and the commissioner on…

(a) The following persons only are authorized to execute contracts on behalf of the State Education Department: (1) Commissioner of Education; (2) Counsel and Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs; (3) Deputy Counsel; and (4) Assistant Counsel. (b) A contract for the purpose of t…

The Board of Regents delegates to the Commissioner of Education the authority to receive, investigate and respond to complaints presented to the Board of Regents pursuant to Education Law section 2855(4), the authority to issue appropriate remedial orders pursuant to Education La…

(a) A revocation proceeding initiated by the Board of Regents under Education Law, section 2855 shall be conducted as follows: (1) Notice of intent to revoke a charter shall be provided to the board of trustees of the charter school at least 30 days prior to the effective date of…

(a) The chancellor shall appoint the following standing committees and designate the leadership of each committee: (1) Higher Education. (2) P-12 Education. (3) Cultural Education. (4) Ethics. (5) Professional Practice. (6) Adult Career and Continuing Education Services (ACCES). …

The incorporation by the Regents, in accordance with the provisions of Education Law article 5, and of these rules, of colleges, universities and other post-secondary institutions of learning, of schools offering instruction at the levels from pre-kindergarten through secondary, …

An absolute charter shall not be given to an institution, pursuant to section 216 of the Education Law, unless: (a) in the judgment of the Regents such institution possesses resources and equipment available for its use and support and sufficient and suitable for its chartered pu…

A provisional charter shall be granted for a period not exceeding five years, but may be extended by the Regents, during which period the institution holding such charter shall have an opportunity to meet the requirements for an absolute charter. The institution shall have under …

An educational institution desiring incorporation or admission to the university or registration by the department shall file application giving the information required in such form and manner as shall be prescribed by the commissioner. The fee for a provisional charter shall be…

The action of the Regents in incorporating institutions, changing their corporate names, altering, suspending or revoking their charters, dissolving their corporate existence, approving transfers of their property, approving the acceptance of conditional gifts, and all similar ac…

An institution or organization to which a charter, either provisional or absolute, or a certificate of incorporation has been issued by the Regents, shall make no statement as to its corporate status in its publications, letterheads, advertising or promotional material or other w…

Education Law, § 216 The commissioner, pursuant to Education Law section 216, may consent to the formation of a corporation under the Business Corporation Law, and to the amendment of the certificate of incorporation of a corporation so formed, whose purposes include the operatio…

Whenever used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated: (1) Museum means an organized non-for-profit institution, including but not limited to halls of fame, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and arboretums, that is essentially educational or aesthe…

The charter of any institution of higher education, if issued by the Regents or by special act of the Legislature, which provides that admission to the institution shall be limited on the basis of sex shall, after approval by the commissioner of a plan for the admission of studen…

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of this section, no individual proprietorship, association, co-partnership or corporation, other than the State University of New York and the City University of New York and their respective component institutions, a community c…

The following rules shall apply to disciplinary matters determined pursuant to the provisions of title VIII of the Education Law: (a) The respondent shall be given at least 20 days' notice of the time and place of the meeting of the Regents review committee. (b) The respondent sh…

Whenever used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated: (1) Historical society without collection means an organized not-for-profit corporation, with purposes limited to a reasonable and clearly defined geographical area or to one or more specific su…

The provisions of this section shall apply to a proceeding pursuant to Education Law section 226(4) for the removal of a trustee or trustees of a corporation (institution) created by the Board of Regents, for misconduct, incapacity, neglect of duty and/or failure or refusal of th…

All public elementary, middle and secondary schools in the State of New York, other than charter schools, shall be registered by the Board of Regents pursuant to the regulations of the commissioner and all public schools shall be deemed admitted to the University of the State of …

Secondary schools shall be graded as junior high schools, middle high schools, industrial high schools, technical high schools, continuation high schools, and high schools, and the requirements therefor shall be as follows: (a) A junior high school shall consist of the seventh, e…

(a) No school district shall receive any apportionment of funds unless it submits all required reports, maintains an approved course of study, provides a school building and site in conformity with the requirements of the Education Law, the rules of the Regents and the regulation…

The Commissioner of Education, with the approval of the Regents, shall promulgate regulations relating to the apportionment of funds to non-public schools pursuant to the provisions of chapter 507 of the Laws of 1974.

If two school districts are consolidated, the apportionments due both for the current year shall be paid to the consolidated district. If an academy becomes the academic department of a union free school district by lease or adoption, the apportionment due to the academy for the …

No school shall be entitled to compensation from public moneys for the tuition of nonresident academic pupils unless such pupils, while under instruction: (a) resided in a district of this State which did not then maintain an approved academic department of a grade which the pupi…

Except where otherwise specifically provided for by statute or in other provisions of this Title, calculations made in the determination and payment of State aid for school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, or any other entity entitled to receive an apportion…

The commissioner shall cause a journal to be kept of the proceedings of the Regents and, as the official record thereof, after approval by the board, from time to time he shall have copies bound in form suitable for permanent preservation.

No high school diploma shall be conferred which does not represent four years or their equivalent in grades above grade eight, and no such diploma shall be conferred upon a pupil who has not achieved a passing rating in each of the basic competency tests established by the commis…

No institution in this State shall confer any honorary or other degree unless so authorized by its charter or by authorization of the Regents. No charter shall authorize an institution to confer any degree on requirements lower than those fixed by the department as the minimum fo…

(1) No earned degree shall be conferred in this State on any person who has not completed the program of study requisite to such degree, which institution shall be authorized to confer the same. No earned undergraduate or graduate degree shall be conferred unless the applicant ha…

(a) No honorary degree shall be conferred by the Board of Regents on behalf of the University of the State of New York except by three-quarters vote of the Regents by ballot at a regular meeting, on a candidate recommended therefor at a previous meeting. (b) Any institution of hi…

The conferring of any degree by the Regents shall be certified by a parchment under seal bearing the signatures of the chancellor and the president.

There shall continue to be a President of the University of the State of New York, chosen by the Regents by ballot, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the Regents, and such other officers as the Regents shall from time to time designate.

The following degrees and their corresponding symbols are authorized and approved. (1) Liberal Arts and Science: Associate in Arts (A.A.) Associate in Science (A.S.) Bachelor of Arts (A.B. or B.A.) Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Master of Arts (A.M. or M.A.) Master of Science (M.S.) …

All institutions in the university shall transmit to the department yearly, on or before September 1st, a report in prescribed form for the preceding statutory school year. No such institution whose report is not filed before the 20th day of September shall participate in any app…

In case the office of chief executive of an institution in the university shall be vacant for one year without satisfactory excuse therefor, the Regents may fill the vacancy. The person so appointed shall continue in office during the pleasure of the Regents, and shall have the s…

Education Law, § 6401 For purposes of apportioning State aid pursuant to section 6401 of the Education Law, earned degrees are classified as follows: (a) An earned associate degree shall represent completion of two academic years of full-time study or an equivalent which can be s…

An individual, association, copartnership or corporation in New York which is not empowered to confer associate, baccalaureate or higher degrees shall not offer a program leading to a degree to be conferred by an institution, located within or outside of New York State, which is …

An institution authorized to confer degrees in a state other than New York, which seeks the permission of the Regents to offer educational programs in New York, shall comply with the following procedures and requirements: An application for initial approval and applications for r…

An applicant for the degree of doctor of medicine (M.D.) pursuant to the provisions of section 6529 of the Education Law, shall submit evidence, satisfactory to the department, of: (a) completion of a medical education program in a foreign medical school satisfactory to the depar…

As used in this section: (1) Change of ownership or control means merger or consolidation with any corporation; sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the institution; and the transfer of a controlling interest (at least 51 percent…

For purposes of this section only: (1) Institution means an independent/not-for-profit institution of higher education whose corporate purpose includes the provisional or permanent authorization to offer postsecondary curricula registered pursuant to Part 52 of this Title, leadin…

(a) The president shall devote himself to the duties devolving upon him by statute and the rules and resolutions of the Regents, to the encouragement and promotion of education throughout the University and to the inspection of its several institutions and departments, and shall …

(a) The signature of the Commissioner of Education as such shall be sufficient indication of and shall validate his official action as commissioner. (b) Whenever a statutory power or duty is or shall have been conferred or imposed upon the commissioner, such statutory power or du…

(a) There shall be a counsel to the Education Department and the University and such other personnel as may be appointed from time to time by the commissioner. (b) The executive deputy commissioner shall be the Deputy Commissioner of Education as specified in section 101 of the E…