                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 30-231.01)

As used in this chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise:
		&#8220;Accredited career and technical education postsecondary school&#8221;
means (i) a privately owned and managed, academic-vocational school, noncollege
degree school, postsecondary school, or a vocational school, as defined in §
23.1-213; (ii) formed, incorporated, or chartered within the Commonwealth and
whose administrative office and principal campus is located in Virginia; (iii)
accredited by a national or regional organization or agency recognized by the
United States Secretary of Education for accrediting purposes; and (iv)
certified by the State Council of Higher Education to award certificates and
diplomas or to confer degrees, pursuant to § 23.1-219.
		&#8220;Approved education program&#8221; means an educational agency or
transition program or services accepted for participation in the Program by the
Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Committee.
		&#8220;College-Level Examination Program (CLEP)&#8221; means a program
consisting of a series of general and subject examinations in undergraduate
college courses that measures an individual&#8217;s college level knowledge
gained through course work, independent study, cultural pursuits, travel,
special interests, military service, and professional development, for the
purpose of earning college credit.
		&#8220;Committee&#8221; means the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship
Committee.
		&#8220;Dual enrollment&#8221; means the concurrent enrollment of a scholarship
recipient in an adult education program for the high school diploma and a public
or private accredited two-year or four-year Virginia institution of higher
education.
		&#8220;Educational agency&#8221; means any (i) public school in the
Commonwealth, (ii) public or private accredited two-year or four-year Virginia
institution of higher education that is in compliance with the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation standards for institutions and
academic programs or other national or regional organization or agency
recognized by the United States Secretary of Education for accrediting purposes,
(iii) high school equivalency preparation program in compliance with Board of
Education guidelines, (iv) College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) in
compliance with the requirements of the College Board governing college level
examination programs, or (v) accredited career and technical education
postsecondary school in the Commonwealth, that accepts for admission recipients
of the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program.
		&#8220;Graduate degree program&#8221; means an accredited academic program of
study offered by a Virginia institution of higher education that has been
accepted for participation in the Program by the Brown v. Board of Education
Scholarship Committee to which scholarship recipients are accepted for admission
and successful completion of the academic program culminates in the awarding of
the masters or doctoral degree.
		&#8220;High school equivalency preparation program&#8221; means a program of
preparation and instruction for adults who did not complete high school, and for
youth who have been granted permission by the division superintendent of the
school in which they are enrolled, to take a high school equivalency examination
approved by the Board of Education.
		&#8220;Professional degree program&#8221; means an accredited graduate level
program of study offered by a Virginia institution of higher education that has
been accepted for participation in the Program by the Brown v. Board of
Education Scholarship Committee to which scholarship recipients are accepted for
admission and successful completion of the academic program culminates in the
award of a degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, law, pharmacy, optometry,
engineering, architecture, veterinary medicine, or other discipline approved by
the Committee.
		&#8220;Program&#8221; means the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship
Program and Fund.
		&#8220;Transition program and services&#8221; means individualized instruction
or a compensatory education program designed to provide remediation,
acceleration, or fundamental basic life skills to assist scholarship recipients
in overcoming learning problems or to prepare such persons for academic success
in an approved education program.

HISTORY: 2006, c. 518; 2009, c. 444; 2010, c. 579; 2014, c. 84.