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6-51-903. Local board of directors — Members.
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6-51-903. Local board of directors — Members.
(a) All postsecondary vocational-technical schools, including those which expand their services under § 6-51-217 or under § 6-51-906 shall be governed by a local board of directors.
(b)(1) The Governor shall appoint a five-member local board of directors composed of residents of the local geographic service area in which the institution is located.
(A) Appointment shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.
(B) No candidate for public office, holder of public office in the state, or his or her spouse, shall serve as a member of a local board.
(C) Members of the local board shall be qualified electors of the geographic service area in which the institution is located.
(D) Local board appointees shall have a high interest in vocational and technical education, a strong desire and commitment to serve the institution in the improvement of its offerings, and shall be representative of business, industry, labor, and agriculture, including service occupations.
(2) The term of office for local board members shall be five (5) years.
(A) The initial board appointees shall determine their terms by lot so that no more than one (1) term shall expire during any given year.
(B) A local board appointee shall serve no more than two (2) consecutive terms.
(3) When a vacancy occurs in the membership of the board, the president or director of the institution shall so notify the Governor who shall appoint a successor to the person who vacated membership, who shall serve the unexpired term of the person succeeded.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-51-903
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6-51-903. Local board of directors — Members.
(a) All postsecondary vocational-technical schools, including those which expand their services under § 6-51-217 or under § 6-51-906 shall be governed by a local board of directors.
(b)(1) The Governor shall appoint a five-member local board of directors composed of residents of the local geographic service area in which the institution is located.
(A) Appointment shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.
(B) No candidate for public office, holder of public office in the state, or his or her spouse, shall serve as a member of a local board.
(C) Members of the local board shall be qualified electors of the geographic service area in which the institution is located.
(D) Local board appointees shall have a high interest in vocational and technical education, a strong desire and commitment to serve the institution in the improvement of its offerings, and shall be representative of business, industry, labor, and agriculture, including service occupations.
(2) The term of office for local board members shall be five (5) years.
(A) The initial board appointees shall determine their terms by lot so that no more than one (1) term shall expire during any given year.
(B) A local board appointee shall serve no more than two (2) consecutive terms.
(3) When a vacancy occurs in the membership of the board, the president or director of the institution shall so notify the Governor who shall appoint a successor to the person who vacated membership, who shall serve the unexpired term of the person succeeded.
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6-51-217. Change of name to “technical institute”.
(a) The State Board of Career Education shall establish a technical curriculum that must be offered by any vocational-technical school requesting permission to change its name pursuant to this section to “technical institute”. The board shall periodically review and revise, if necessary, this technical curriculum requirement.
(b) Any vocational-technical school which satisfies the curriculum requirements established by the board pursuant to subsection (a) of this section may, in accordance with procedures to be adopted by the board, seek approval from the board to change its name from “ Vocational-Technical School” to “ Technical Institute”. Upon approval by the board of any such application, the school shall be renamed and become a technical institute.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-51-217
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 6-51-217. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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6-51-906. Comprehensive lifelong learning centers.
(a) Schools not converting to technical institutes as provided by other sections of this subchapter, or community colleges under existing law, shall expand program offerings and become a comprehensive lifelong learning center.
(b) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall establish criteria and program expansions which would require all remaining postsecondary vocational-technical schools to become comprehensive lifelong learning centers.
(c)(1) When a postsecondary vocational-technical school meets the criteria for becoming a comprehensive lifelong learning center as established by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the school shall make application to the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board seeking that it be designated as such.
(2) Each comprehensive lifelong learning center shall operate within a service area assigned by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
(3)(A) Each comprehensive lifelong learning center may operate satellite campuses apart from the campus of the main center but within the service area of the center.
(B) The establishment, locations, and number of satellite campuses of a center must be approved by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
(4)(A) The board of directors of a comprehensive lifelong learning center may contract with existing institutions of higher education for the operation of any associate degree programs offered at the center, upon approval by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
(B) Any degree program at or above the associate degree level offered at a comprehensive lifelong learning center must be approved by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and awarded by an Arkansas instituti
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-51-906
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 6-51-906. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.