Mich. Admin. Code R. 338.726 - Educational standards; adoption by reference

Rule 26. The board approves a massage therapy supervised curriculum that meets the requirements of R 338.722a and complies with 1 of the following:

(a) Is offered by a National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) assigned school that is researched and approved by the NCBTMB and meets the NCBTMB's minimum curriculum requirements.

(b) Is accredited by the accrediting body of the region in which the institution is located and the accrediting body meets either the recognition standards and criteria of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or the recognition procedures and criteria of the United States Department of Education. The board adopts by reference the procedures and criteria for recognizing accrediting agencies of the United States Department of Education, effective July 1, 2010, as contained in 34 CFR 602 (2010), and the policies and procedures for recognition of accrediting organizations of the CHEA, effective September 24, 2018. Copies of the standards and criteria of the CHEA and the United States Department of Education are available for inspection and distribution at a cost of 10 cents per page from the Board of Massage Therapy, Bureau of Professional Licensing, Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, 611 West Ottawa, P.O. Box 30670, Lansing, Michigan 48909. The CHEA recognition standards may also be obtained at no cost from the council's website at http://www.chea.org. The federal recognition criteria may also be obtained at no cost from the website for the United States Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education at http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/OPE/index.html.

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Mich. Admin. Code R. 338.726

2019 AACS; 2021 MR 7, Eff. 4/1/2021