74-32,163. Definitions.  As used in the Kansas private and out-of-state postsecondary educational institution act:

(a) "Academic degree" means any associate, bachelor's, professional, master's, specialist or doctoral degree.

(b) "Accreditation" means an accreditation by an agency recognized by the United States department of education.

(c) "Branch campus" means any subsidiary place of business maintained within the state of Kansas by an institution at a site which is separate from the site of the institution's principal place of business and at which the institution offers a course or courses of instruction or study identical to the course or courses of instruction or study offered by the institution at its principal place of business.

(d) "Distance education" means any course delivered primarily by use of correspondence study, audio, video or computer technologies.

(e) "Out-of-state postsecondary educational institution" means a postsecondary educational institution chartered, incorporated or otherwise organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of Kansas.

(f) "Institution" means an out-of-state or private postsecondary educational institution.

(g) "Institution employee" means any person, other than an owner, who directly or indirectly receives compensation from an institution for services rendered.

(h) "Owner of an institution" means:

(1) In the case of an institution owned by an individual, that individual;

(2) in the case of an institution owned by a partnership, all full, silent and limited partners;

(3) in the case of an institution owned by a corporation, the corporation, its directors, officers and each shareholder owning shares of issued and outstanding stock aggregating at least 10% of the total of the issued and outstanding shares; and

(4) in the case of an institution owned by a limited liability company, the company, its managers and all its members.

(i) "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, association or corporation.

(j) "Physical presence" means:

(1) The employment in Kansas of a Kansas resident for the purpose of administering, coordinating, teaching, training, tutoring, counseling, advising or any other activity on behalf of the institution; or

(2) The delivery of, or the intent to deliver, instruction in Kansas with the assistance from any entity within the state in delivering the instruction including, but not limited to, a cable television company or a television broadcast station that carries instruction sponsored by the institution.

(k) "Private postsecondary educational institution" means an entity which:

(1) Is a business enterprise, whether operated on a profit or not-for-profit basis, which has a physical presence within the state of Kansas or which solicits business within the state of Kansas;

(2) offers a course or courses of instruction or study through classroom contact or by distance education, or both, for the purpose of training or preparing persons for a field of endeavor in a business, trade, technical or industrial occupation or which offers a course or courses leading to an academic degree; and

(3) is not specifically exempted by the provisions of this act.

(l) "Representative" means any person employed by an institution to act as an agent, solicitor or broker to procure students or enrollees for the institution.

(m) "State board" means the state board of regents or the board's designee.

(n) "Support" or "supported" means the primary source and means by which an institution derives revenue to perpetuate operation of the institution.

(o) "University" means a postsecondary educational institution authorized to offer any degree including a bachelor, graduate or professional degree.

(p) "State educational institution" means any state educational institution as defined by K.S.A. 76-711, and amendments thereto.

History: L. 2004, ch. 185, § 3; L. 2010, ch. 150, § 2; L. 2016, ch. 74, § 5; July 1.