Section 1015.20  Definitions

            "Administrative costs" means costs other than student wages and salaries, items that go into the hands of students, cost reimbursements to students, and the cost of audits.

            "Board" means the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

            "Cooperative work study" means an academically related work and study experience with business, industry, government or other agencies and organizations.  Cooperative work study may include, but is not limited to, summer internships, clinical placements, internships and work experiences during the academic year.

            "Illinois resident student."  To qualify as an Illinois resident student, one of the following two requirements must be met:

            At least one parent, step-parent, or court appointed guardian must reside in Illinois; or

            The emancipated (self-supporting) student must have lived in Illinois, in some capacity other than as a student at an Illinois public or nonpublic institution of higher education, for a period of 12 consecutive months immediately prior to the enrollment.

            "Nonpublic institution of higher education" means an Illinois educational organization, other than a public institution of higher education, that provides a minimum of an organized two-year program at the private junior college level or higher and that operates in conformity with standards substantially equivalent to those of the public institutions of higher education.

            "Public institution of higher education" means the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, the several universities and colleges under the governance of the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities, the several Regency Universities under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents, the public community colleges of this State, and any other public universities, colleges and community colleges now or hereafter established or authorized by the General Assembly. (Section 2 of the Act)