2007 Minnesota Statutes

136A.62 DEFINITIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Words, terms, and phrases. The following words, terms, and phrases shall
have the meanings ascribed to them in this section for the purposes of sections 136A.61 to
136A.71.
    Subd. 2. Office. "Office" means the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.
    Subd. 3. School. "School" means:
    (1) any partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any
combination thereof, which (i) is, owns, or operates a private, nonprofit postsecondary education
institution; (ii) is, owns, or operates a private, for-profit postsecondary education institution; or
(iii) provides a postsecondary instructional program or course leading to a degree whether or not
for profit;
    (2) any public postsecondary educational institution located in another state or country which
offers or makes available to a Minnesota resident any course, program or educational activity
which does not require the leaving of the state for its completion; or
    (3) any individual, entity, or postsecondary institution located in another state that contracts
with any school located within the state of Minnesota for the purpose of providing educational
programs, training programs, or awarding postsecondary credits or continuing education credits to
Minnesota residents that may be applied to a degree program.
    Subd. 4. Degree. "Degree" means any award given by a school for completion of a program
or course which is designated by the term degree, associate, bachelor, baccalaureate, masters, or
doctorate, or any other award which the office shall include by rule.
    Subd. 5. Records. "Records" means those school documents and files containing student
data relating to academic credits, grades, degrees awarded, periods of attendance, and such other
matters as the office shall determine by rule.
History: 1975 c 201 s 2; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1978 c 603 s 2; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1995 c 212 art 3 s
39,59; 2005 c 107 art 2 s 60; 2007 c 144 art 3 s 3