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
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• 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
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the student tuition recovery fund. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• 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
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• 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.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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