GAIA Learning Center will operate under the California Educational Code, Section #94302(w)5 as follows:

"A nonprofit institution owned, controlled, and operated and maintained by a bona fide church or religious denomination, lawfully operating as a nonprofit religious corporation pursuant to Part 4 (commencing with Section 9110) of Division 2 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code, if the education is limited to instructions in the principles of that church or denomination, or to courses offered pursuant to Section 2789 of the Business and Professions Code, and the diploma or degree is limited to evidence of completion of that education, and the meritorious recognition upon which any honorary degree is conferred is limited to the principles of that church or denomination.  Institutions operating under this paragraph shall offer degrees and diplomas only in the beliefs and practices of the denomination, church, or religion.  The enactment of this paragraph expresses legislative intent that the state shall not involve itself in the content of degree programs awarded by any institution operating under this paragraph, as long as the institution awards degrees and diplomas only in areas specified in the previous sentence.  Institutions operating under this paragraph shall not award degrees in any area of physical science.  Any degree or diploma granted in any area of study under these provisions shall contain on its face, in the written description of the title of the degree being conferred, a reference to the theological or religious aspect of the degree's subject area.  The enactment of this paragraph is intended to prevent any entity claiming to be a nonprofit institution owned, controlled, and operated and maintained by a bona fide church or religious denomination, lawfully operating as a nonprofit religious corporation pursuant to Part 4 (commencing with Section 9110) of Division 2 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code, from marketing and granting degrees or diplomas that are represented as being linked to their church or denomination but which, in reality, are degrees in secular areas of study."