Your Biggest Questions About College Accreditation Answered

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What is Accreditation? Your Biggest Questions About College Accreditation Answered (Accredited Schools) March 2, 2023. What does it mean for a college to be accredited? Learn the answer to this question and more in our FAQ, with insights from the president of CHEA. In 1996, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) was formed to introduce more rigorous standards for assessing educational quality. We spoke with Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, president of CHEA, to help answer some of your biggest accreditation questions. "When a college is accredited, it means that the standards of accountability have been met or exceeded according to nationally established benchmarks," said Jackson-Hammond.

N.C. A&T’S College of Education Makes Big Impact Meeting Teacher Recruitment, Retention and Student Development Needs (NCAT.edu) March 2, 2023. As educators, school leaders and public education advocates across the country are celebrating Public Schools Week, Feb. 27 through March 3– a week designated to highlight and show support for local public schools–the College of Education (CEd) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is celebrating the week and the esteemed education profession by exposing pre-college students to the career. In 2022, the Education Preparation program at A&T was accredited through 2029 by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). Additionally, CAEP is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

This Committee is Obscure and Overlooked. It's Also Important (Real Clear Policy) March 2, 2023. The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) is a little-known but critically important committee for higher education accreditation in the U.S. NACIQI’s role is to advise the U.S. Secretary of Education on matters related to higher education accrediting agencies. NACIQI’s role is to ensure accreditors are meeting their quality control standards, not to regulate them. Ensuring the independence and traditional role of NACIQI is paramount for our higher education system.  

What the Accreditation Naysayers Don’t Understand (Insider Higher Education) February 27, 2023. If you want a higher ed reboot, you’re going to need the accreditors, Lawrence Schall writes. Accreditation naysayers don’t understand today’s accreditation. I know: I was one of them. But here’s the thing—accreditation forced me to make the hard decisions that others before me had not made. Our college not only survived, it thrived.