Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 32 > Chapter 30 - Private Postsecondary Education

• Accredited: means accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States department of education. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Assessment: means the amount a private postsecondary education institution is required to pay to the student tuition recovery fund. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Board: means the state board for private postsecondary education. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Ceasing operations: means that a private postsecondary education institution has stopped offering educational courses or programs to the public for any reason. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Degree: means an academic degree or honorary degree or the title of any designation, mark, appellation, series of letters or words including associate, bachelor, master, doctor or fellow which signifies, purports to signify or is generally taken to signify satisfactory completion of the requirements of an educational program of study beyond the secondary school level or which is an honorary title conferred for recognition of some meritorious achievement. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Distance learning instruction: means a written correspondence or online education program for students who are enrolled in an institution licensed under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the student tuition recovery fund. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grant: means award, bestow, confer, convey or sell. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• institution: means an educational institution that is subject to licensure under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Newly enrolled student: means a student who is enrolling with a private postsecondary education institution for the first time. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Operate: means to establish, keep, maintain or utilize a physical facility, location or mailing address in this state where, from which or through which students are procured for private vocational or private degree programs, private vocational or private degree programs are offered or private vocational credentials or private degrees are offered or granted and includes contracting for the performance of any of these acts. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Person injured: means a student of a private postsecondary education institution that charges prepaid tuition to a student who is damaged monetarily by the institution ceasing operations before fulfilling its contractual obligations or fully providing the services that were paid for in advance. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Prepaid tuition: means monies that are advanced to an educational institution before the educational institution provides its service. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Private vocational program: means an instructional program which includes a course or group of courses as defined in section 15-101 for which a student does not earn a degree and which is designed to provide or is advertised as providing a student with sufficient skills for entry into a paid occupation, and which is not conducted solely by a public school, public community college or public university. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Total course cost: means the tuition and other fees that are charged by the private postsecondary education institution for each course offered. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Wilfully: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 1-215