Sec. 61.321. INFORMATION PROVIDED TO PROTECT PUBLIC FROM FRAUDULENT, SUBSTANDARD, OR FICTITIOUS DEGREES. To protect the public from private postsecondary educational institutions or other persons that confer or offer to confer fraudulent or substandard degrees and from persons that use or hold fraudulent or substandard degrees or that use or claim to hold fictitious degrees, the board shall disseminate the following information through the board's Internet website:
(1) to the extent known by the board, the accreditation status or the status regarding authorization or approval under this subchapter, as applicable, of each private postsecondary educational institution or other person that is regulated by this subchapter or for which a determination is made under Section 61.3021, including:
(A) the name of each educational institution accredited, authorized, or approved to offer or grant degrees in this state;
(B) the name of each educational institution whose degrees the board has determined may not be legally used in this state; and
(C) the name of each educational institution that the board has determined to be operating in this state in violation of this subchapter; and
(2) any other information considered by the commissioner to be useful to protect the public from fraudulent, substandard, or fictitious degrees.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1039 (H.B. 1173), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2005.
Structure Texas Statutes
Subtitle B - State Coordination of Higher Education
Chapter 61 - Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Subchapter G. Regulation of Private Postsecondary Educational Institutions
Section 61.3021. Review of Degree Not Otherwise Regulated by Subchapter
Section 61.3025. Definition: Academic Records
Section 61.304. Requisite Authority to Grant Degrees and Offer Courses; Offenses
Section 61.305. Application for Certificate of Authority
Section 61.306. Issuance of Certificate
Section 61.307. Amendments to Applications
Section 61.3075. Required Financial Resources
Section 61.308. Renewal of Certificate
Section 61.309. Revocation of Certificate of Authority
Section 61.311. Rules and Regulations
Section 61.312. Honorary Degrees; Offenses
Section 61.313. Use of Protected Term in Name of Institution; Offenses
Section 61.314. Advisory Council on Private Postsecondary Educational Institutions
Section 61.315. Agents and Records; Academic Records Repository
Section 61.316. Administrative Penalties
Section 61.320. Application of Deceptive Trade Practices Act