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Accredit Here, a Credit There
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
With the tremendous growth in Web accessibility, online courses and the support from employers for employees to get re-educated, re-certified, and re-degreed, who would have considered the potential for misstep that has arisen in our brave new online world?
In the old days of brick-and-mortar colleges of higher learning, one never thought much about checking into an institution’s accreditation background. As smaller, occupationally related schools began emerging, however, the need to check on those credentials became more important. Nowadays, just as in the heyday of fast-opening-and-closing correspondence colleges or the quick-fix trade schools, one needs to make sure that the institution you apply to has the proper accreditation in order to consider their programs of value (as well as your education).
What is Accreditation?
Accreditation is a validation process for institutions of higher education. These schools are evaluated against established standards to ensure a high level of educational quality. This process is often done through a peer-review process in which faculty from already accredited institutions assist in conducting evaluations of either newly formed institutions that are seeking accreditation or currently accredited institutions seeking renewal (this also can apply to those schools who, for whatever reason, have lost their …
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