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The diploma your school hands itself, graded by people it pays.
means Official recognition that an institution or program meets established standards of quality, granted by an outside body with the authority to say so.
from From Latin 'accreditare' — ad- ('to') plus 'credere' ('to believe, to trust'), the same root that gives us 'credit' and 'credible.' So accreditation is literally the granting of belief: an authority lending its trust to a school or institution so the rest of us don't have to verify it ourselves. The irony baked into the word is that 'credere' was always about faith, not proof — which is exactly the gap the essence is pointing at.
- self-policing
- Schools largely fund the agencies that judge them
- federal link
- No accreditation means no federal student loans
- not quality proof
- Measures compliance paperwork, not actual teaching
- diploma mills
- Fake accreditors exist just to rubber-stamp fake schools