Connecticut General Statutes Title 10A. State System of Higher Education § 10a-22a. Private career schools. Definitions

(1) “Private career school” means a postsecondary career school operated by a person, board, association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity offering or advertising vocational instruction in any form or manner in any trade, industrial, commercial, service, professional or other occupation for any remuneration, consideration, reward or fee of whatever nature, including, but not limited to, a hospital-based career school, or any program, school or entity offering postsecondary instruction in barbering, hairdressing and cosmetology or the occupation of esthetician, nail technician or eyelash technician, as such terms are defined in section 20-265a. “Private career school” does not include (A) instruction offered under public supervision and control, (B) instruction conducted by a firm or organization solely for the training of its own employees or members, (C) instruction offered by a school authorized by the General Assembly to confer degrees, or (D) instruction offered in the arts or recreation, including, but not limited to, the training of students to provide such instruction;

(2) “Additional classroom site” means a facility that (A) is geographically located close to the school or branch that oversees the site, such that students must utilize services provided at such school or branch, (B) conducts permanent or temporary educational activities, and (C) offers courses or full programs of study;

(3) “Branch” means a subdivision of a school (A) located at a different facility and geographical site from the school, except for a site that is an additional classroom site as determined by the commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, and (B) that (i) offers one or more complete programs leading to a diploma or certificate; (ii) operates under the school's certificate of operation; (iii) meets the same conditions of authorization as the school; and (iv) exercises administrative control and is responsible for its own academic affairs;

(4) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Higher Education; and

(5) “Postsecondary career school” means an institution authorized to operate educational programs beyond secondary education.