Section 1039.20  Definitions

"Board" means the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

"Capital Projects" means the construction, repair, renovation, and miscellaneous capital improvements, including the planning, engineering, acquisition, reconstruction, remodeling, improvement, repair and installation of capital facilities and costs of planning, supplies, equipment, materials, services, and all other required expenses. [30 ILCS 425/4(c)] Capital Projects do not include the following: 

The repair, renovation or construction of facilities used for sectarian instruction, religious worship or a school or department of divinity or in which a majority of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission. For the purposes of this grant, a "school or department of divinity" means an institution, or a department of an institution, whose program is specifically for the education of students to prepare them to become ministers of religion or to enter upon some other religious vocation, or to prepare them to teach theological subjects.

The repair, renovation or construction of the proportional share of joint use facilities that either:

provide personal residential space for owners, administrators or persons who are not students of the institution; or

provide office, retail or storage space used for business activities unrelated to the educational mission of the institution.

"DFPR" means the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation or its successor.

"Fall Term" means the part of the academic year that begins between late August and November 1.

"FTE" means the full-time equivalent students as determined by Section 1039.40 who were enrolled in the fall 2008 term.

"Grant Period" means the term that begins on the date of the appropriation from which the grant is to be paid and extends for no longer than five years.  This grant period will be reflected in the grant agreement.  Pursuant to the Grant Funds Recovery Act [30 ILCS 705/5], independent colleges that receive a redistribution of grant funds after the initial grant period of five years shall have two years to expend the funds.

"Independent Colleges" means, solely for the purposes of this Part, nonpublic, nonprofit colleges and universities based in Illinois that have either been authorized to operate within the State of Illinois pursuant to the Private College Act [110 ILCS 1005] and/or the Academic Degree Act [110 ILCS 1010]; or have been in continuous operation and granted degrees within the State of Illinois before the effective date of those Acts and have not modified the business entity since the effective dates of those Acts.

The term does not include any institution that primarily or exclusively provided online education services as of the fall 2008 term. [30 ILCS 769/25-5]; for the purposes of this Part, primarily or exclusively means greater than 75 percent of the courses offered by the institution.

The term does not include any educational organization primarily used for sectarian instruction, as a place of religious teaching or worship or for any religious denomination or the training of ministers, priests, rabbis or other professional persons in the field of religion; for the purposes of this Part, primarily used means greater than 75 percent of the students enrolled in theology and religious vocation programs.