As used in this act, unless the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended:
(a) "Code" means this act.
(b) "State System" means the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education referred to in Section 1, Article XIII-A, Oklahoma Constitution.
(c) "State Regents" means the Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education, the coordinating board of control, established by Section 2, Article XIII-A, Oklahoma Constitution.
(d) "State educational institution" means any institution supported wholly or in part by direct legislative appropriations and offering courses of education of any kind beyond or in addition to the twelfth grade, or its equivalent, as such grade is generally understood and accepted in the public school system of Oklahoma, whether called a university, college, junior college, school or academy.
(e) "Private educational institution" means any private, denominational or other institution of the same type as a state educational institution except that it is not supported wholly or in part by direct legislative appropriations.
(f) "Board of Regents" means the board or body designated by the Oklahoma Constitution or by this Code as the board of regents or governing board of a state educational institution.
Laws 1965, c. 396, § 102.