Resource Guide - Texas Workforce Commission

School Directors’ Resource Guide – Career Schools and Colleges
Representative
Limitations
(continued)
Subchapter C,
§132.059
§
Subchapter D,
§807.53
Employees and other agents of recruiting firms are not
allowed to serve as representatives.
Representatives may not:
• solicit in public places other than educational settings,
job fairs, or organized meetings
• offer any inducement to a prospective student prior to
enrollment
• administer an entrance test
• advise students about financial aid other than to tell them
it is available
• give false or deceptive information about any aspect of
the school’s operation
• concurrently solicit for or represent more than one school
without the owners’ knowledge
• engage in acts or practices that intimidate, coerce, or
mislead a prospective student into accepting an
enrollment
• represent the school or program as having sponsorship,
credentials, approval, characteristics, credit
transferability, uses, benefits or qualities that it does not
have
• discredit another school or its programs by false or
misleading representation of facts
• solicit enrollments in unapproved programs
• solicit students for a school through an employment
agency
• violate any legal requirement or prohibition contained in
the Texas Education Code or the Rules.
CSC considers statements made by representatives to be the
equivalent of advertising the school. Therefore, the
restrictions on advertising apply to statements made by
representatives. (See Subchapter I, §807.121 through
§807.126.)
Chapter 2 - Representatives October 2004 Page 2.3