[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR5.105]
[Page 82-84]
TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
PART 5_NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR
ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents
Subpart A_Introduction
Sec. 5.105 Definitions.
As used in these Title IX regulations, the term:
Administratively separate unit means a school, department, or
college of an educational institution (other than a local educational
agency) admission to which is independent of admission to any other
component of such institution.
Admission means selection for part-time, full-time, special,
associate, transfer, exchange, or any other enrollment, membership, or
matriculation in or at an education program or activity operated by a
recipient.
Applicant means one who submits an application, request, or plan
required to be approved by an official of the Federal agency that awards
Federal financial assistance, or by a recipient, as a condition to
becoming a recipient.
Designated agency official means the Director, Office of Civil
Rights.
Educational institution means a local educational agency (LEA) as
defined by 20 U.S.C. 8801(18), a preschool, a private elementary or
secondary school, or an applicant or recipient that is an institution of
graduate higher education, an institution of undergraduate higher
education, an institution of professional education, or an institution
of vocational education, as defined in this section.
Federal financial assistance means any of the following, when
authorized or extended under a law administered by the Federal agency
that awards such assistance:
(1) A grant or loan of Federal financial assistance, including funds
made available for:
(i) The acquisition, construction, renovation, restoration, or
repair of a building or facility or any portion thereof; and
(ii) Scholarships, loans, grants, wages, or other funds extended to
any entity for payment to or on behalf of students admitted to that
entity, or extended directly to such students for payment to that
entity.
(2) A grant of Federal real or personal property or any interest
therein,
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including surplus property, and the proceeds of the sale or transfer of
such property, if the Federal share of the fair market value of the
property is not, upon such sale or transfer, properly accounted for to
the Federal Government.
(3) Provision of the services of Federal personnel.
(4) Sale or lease of Federal property or any interest therein at
nominal consideration, or at consideration reduced for the purpose of
assisting the recipient or in recognition of public interest to be
served thereby, or permission to use Federal property or any interest
therein without consideration.
(5) Any other contract, agreement, or arrangement that has as one of
its purposes the provision of assistance to any education program or
activity, except a contract of insurance or guaranty.
Institution of graduate higher education means an institution that:
(1) Offers academic study beyond the bachelor of arts or bachelor of
science degree, whether or not leading to a certificate of any higher
degree in the liberal arts and sciences;
(2) Awards any degree in a professional field beyond the first
professional degree (regardless of whether the first professional degree
in such field is awarded by an institution of undergraduate higher
education or professional education); or
(3) Awards no degree and offers no further academic study, but
operates ordinarily for the purpose of facilitating research by persons
who have received the highest graduate degree in any field of study.
Institution of professional education means an institution (except
any institution of undergraduate higher education) that offers a program
of academic study that leads to a first professional degree in a field
for which there is a national specialized accrediting agency recognized
by the Sec. etary of Education.
Institution of undergraduate higher education means:
(1) An institution offering at least two but less than four years of
college-level study beyond the high school level, leading to a diploma
or an associate degree, or wholly or principally creditable toward a
baccalaureate degree; or
(2) An institution offering academic study leading to a
baccalaureate degree; or
(3) An agency or body that certifies credentials or offers degrees,
but that may or may not offer academic study.
Institution of vocational education means a school or institution
(except an institution of professional or graduate or undergraduate
higher education) that has as its primary purpose preparation of
students to pursue a technical, skilled, or semiskilled occupation or
trade, or to pursue study in a technical field, whether or not the
school or institution offers certificates, diplomas, or degrees and
whether or not it offers full-time study.
Recipient means any State or political subdivision thereof, or any
instrumentality of a State or political subdivision thereof, any public
or private agency, institution, or organization, or other entity, or any
person, to whom Federal financial assistance is extended directly or
through another recipient and that operates an education program or
activity that receives such assistance, including any subunit,
successor, assignee, or transferee thereof.
Student means a person who has gained admission.
Title IX means Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Public
Law 92-318, 86 Stat. 235, 373 (codified as amended at 20 U.S.C. 1681-
1688) (except sections 904 and 906 thereof), as amended by section 3 of
Public Law 93-568, 88 Stat. 1855, by section 412 of the Education
Amendments of 1976, Public Law 94-482, 90 Stat. 2234, and by Sec. ion 3
of Public Law 100-259, 102 Stat. 28, 28-29 (20 U.S.C. 1681, 1682, 1683,
1685, 1686, 1687, 1688).
Title IX regulations means the provisions set forth at Sec. Sec.
5.100 through 5.605.
Transition plan means a plan subject to the approval of the
Sec. etary of Education pursuant to section 901(a)(2) of the Education
Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. 1681(a)(2), under which an educational
institution operates in making the transition from being an educational
institution that admits only students of one sex to being one that
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admits students of both sexes without discrimination.
[65 FR 52865, 52890, Aug. 30, 2000]
