Vocational and nonvocational programs offered at the state universities shall be operated and administered by those universities consistent with the regulations developed by the board of trustees or regents and approved by the Council on Postsecondary Education for the issuance of associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degrees. Joint programming and articulation of vocational-technical education nondegree programs with associate degree programs shall be pursued between the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and other postsecondary institutions when feasible. No public institution of higher education shall offer any new program of a vocational-technical-occupational nature below the associate degree level without the review of the board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and the approval of the Council on Postsecondary Education. The board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, with approval of the Council on Postsecondary Education, may contract with public institutions of higher education for the operation of specific programs and projects.
Effective: May 30, 1997

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 164.296

  • Board of regents: means the governing board of each comprehensive university and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Council: means the Council on Postsecondary Education created in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • Institution: means a university, college, community college, health technology center, vocational-technical school, technical institute, technical college, technology center, or the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • Kentucky Community and Technical College System: means the system composed of public community and technical colleges, including those postsecondary institutions operated by the former Cabinet for Workforce Development and those community colleges in the University of Kentucky Community College System on May 30, 1997. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • Public: means operated with state support. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

History: Repealed, reenacted, renumbered, and amended 1997 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky.
Acts ch. 1, sec. 50, effective May 30, 1997. — Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 470, sec.
21, effective July 1, 1990.
Formerly codified as KRS § 151B.115.

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