[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 34CFR608.4]



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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION

 

 CHAPTER VI--OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 

PART 608_STRENGTHENING HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES 

PROGRAM--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 608.4  What definitions apply?



    (a) Definitions in EDGAR. The following terms used in this part are 

defined in 34 CFR 77.1:



Applicant

Application

Award

Budget

EDGAR

Equipment

Fiscal year

Grant period

Private

Project period

Public

Secretary



    (b) Other definitions. The following definitions also apply to this 

part:

    Accredited means the status of public recognition which a nationally 

recognized accrediting agency or association grants to an institution 

which meets certain established qualifications and educational 

standards.

    Graduate means a student who has attended an institution for at 

least three semesters and fulfilled academic requirements for 

undergraduate studies in not more than five consecutive school years.

    Junior or community college means an institution of higher education 

that--

    (i) Admits as regular students persons who are beyond the age of 

compulsory school attendance in the State in which the institution is 

located and who have the ability to benefit from the training offered by 

the institution;

    (ii) Does not provide an educational program for which it awards a 

bachelor's degree or an equivalent degree; and

    (iii) Provides an educational program of not less than 2 years that 

is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree; or offers a 2-year 

program in engineering, mathematics, or the physical or biological 

sciences, designed to prepare a student to work as a technician or at 

the semiprofessional level in engineering, scientific, or other 

technological fields requiring the understanding and application of 

basic engineering, scientific, or mathematical principles of knowledge.

    Pell Grant means the grant program authorized by Title IV-A-1 of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.

    Preaccredited means a status, also called candidacy status, that a 

nationally recognized accrediting agency or association, recognized by 

the Secretary to grant that status, has accorded an unaccredited 

institution that is making reasonable progress toward accreditation.

    School year means the period of time from July 1 of one calendar 

year



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through June 30 of the subsequent calendar year. (A ``school year'' is 

equivalent to an ``award year'' under the Pell Grant Program.)



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1060-1063)