§ 66014.8. — 66014.8. (Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 388, Sec. 1.)

(a)
For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1)
“Institutional accreditation documents” means the institution’s institutional accreditation visiting team reports and the institutional accreditation agency action letters following an accreditation agency’s action relating to an initial accreditation, reaffirmation, comprehensive review, special visit, or any sanction or adverse action taken against an affiliated institution.
(2)
“Segment of postsecondary education” means the California Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, the independent institutions of
higher education, as defined in Section 66010, or the private postsecondary educational institutions, as defined in Section 94858.
(b)
All campuses or other units of any segment of postsecondary education that receive public funding through state or federal financial aid programs, are institutionally accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, and offer education and training programs to California students shall make final institutional accreditation documents available to the public, once those documents have been made final through an action of the accrediting agency, via display in a prominent location on the institution’s Internet Web site, with a link to these documents on the institutional Internet Web site homepage.
(c)
A campus or other unit of any segment of postsecondary education whose documents are not currently
available to the public shall make all institutional accreditation documents finalized by the accrediting agency based on reviews that take place after July 1, 2015, available to the public pursuant to subdivision (b).

Legislative History

Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 388, Sec. 1. (AB 2247) Effective January 1, 2015.