[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR519.12]

[Page 120]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 519_EMPLOYMENT OF FULL-TIME STUDENTS AT SUBMINIMUM WAGES
--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart B_Institutions of Higher Education
 
Sec. 519.12  Definitions.

    (a) Full-time students. A full-time student for the purpose of this 
subpart is defined as one who meets the accepted definition of a full-
time student of the institution of higher education which employs him/
her. A full-time student retains that status during the student's 
Christmas, summer and other vacations, even when a student is taking one 
or more courses during his/her summer or other vacation. The phrase in 
section 14(b) of the statute ``regardless of age but in compliance with 
applicable child labor laws'', among other things restricts the 
employment in an institution of higher education to full-time students 
who are at least 14 years of age because of the application of section 
3(1) of the Act.
    (b) Institution of higher education. An institution of higher 
education is an institution above the secondary level, such as a college 
or university, a junior college, or a professional school of 
engineering, law, library science, social work, etc. It is one that is 
recognized by a national accrediting agency or association as determined 
by the U.S. Commissioner of Education. Generally, an institution of 
higher education: (1) Admits as regular students only individuals having 
a certificate of graduation from a high school or the recognized 
equivalent of such a certificate; and (2) is legally authorized within a 
State to provide a program of education beyond high school; and (3) 
provides an educational program for which it normally awards a 
bachelor's degree, or provides not less than a two-year program which is 
acceptable for full credit toward such a degree or offers a two-year 
program in engineering, mathematics, or the physical or biological 
sciences which is designed to prepare the student to work as a 
technician and at a semi-professional level in engineering, scientific, 
or other technological fields which require the understanding and 
application of basic engineering, scientific, or mathematical principles 
of knowledge.

[40 FR 6329, Feb. 11, 1975; 40 FR 22546, May 23, 1975]