281 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 10, § 004
Commission shall mean the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education.
Executive Director shall mean the Executive Director of the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education or the Executive Director's designee.
Public Institution shall mean any of the following: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Nebraska at Kearney, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, Chadron State College, Peru State College, Wayne State College, Central Community College Area, Metropolitan Community College Area, Mid-Plains Community College Area, Northeast Community College Area, Southeast Community College Area, Western Nebraska Community College Area, including any other campus administered as a separate unit by a governing board, or any other public postsecondary educational institution which may be established by the Legislature after January 1,1992.
Principal Campus shall mean the main campus or campuses of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in Lincoln; of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, in Omaha; of the University of Nebraska at Kearney, in Kearney; of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha; of the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, in Curtis; of Chadron State College, in Chadron; of Peru State College, in Peru; of Wayne State College, in Wayne; of Central Community College in Grand Island, Hastings, and Columbus; of Metropolitan Community College in Omaha and Elkhorn; of Mid-Plains Community College in North Platte and McCook; of Northeast Community College in Norfolk; of Southeast Community College in Beatrice, Lincoln, and Milford; and of Western Nebraska Community College in Scottsbluff.
Branch campus shall mean a new campus of a public institution, established after the effective date of this rule, which houses a full range of instruction, research, and public service, as appropriate to institutional role and mission assignment, as well as administrative and support services.
Education Center, as statutorily defined, shall mean an off-campus center of a public institution or a cooperative of either public or public and private postsecondary educational institutions which offers instructional programs to students.
Off-Campus Site shall mean a facility used by a public institution for off-campus programs other than as herein defined as a cooperative education center, an off-campus center, or facilities of a cooperating Institution.
Cooperating Institution shall mean a postsecondary educational institution which permits another institution to use its facilities for off-campus program instruction.
Institution shall mean a Nebraska postsecondary educational institution.
Off-Campus Courses or Programs shall mean one or more college credit courses or degree programs, including telecommunications-based courses or degree programs, offered by a public institution at a location other than at its principal campus. Off-campus courses or programs exclude credit courses offered where a business or agency has entered into an agreement with the credit-granting public institution to provide specified instruction solely for those who are employees of the business or agency.
Telecommunications shall mean electronic communication media and includes, but is not limited to, communications satellites, terrestrial microwave, television, radio, telephone, fiber optics, and computer communications.
Telecommunications-based courses or programs shall mean off-campus courses or programs emanating from a sending institution by telecommunications. The receiving site may be at a principal campus or branch campus, or at an off-campus center, cooperative education center, off-campus site, or cooperating institution. Excluded from Commission review under this rule are:
Sending institution shall mean a postsecondary education institution which has principal responsibility to provide the instruction and which transmits such instruction to a receiving site or sites via telecommunications.
Receiving institution shall mean the postsecondary education institution which participates in telecommunications-based courses provided by the sending institution. An institution sending telecommunications-based courses to its own off-campus receiving site(s) is both the sending and the receiving institution.1
Sending site shall mean a facility from which the sending institution emanates the instruction for students at receiving sites.
Receiving site shall mean a facility in which students assemble to participate in telecommunications-based courses provided by a sending institution. A receiving site may be a principal campus, branch campus, off-campus center, cooperative education center, off-campus site, or cooperating institution.
281 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 10, § 004