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Eaton, Judith S. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2009
Accreditation is a process of external quality review created and used by higher education to scrutinize colleges, universities, and programs for quality assurance and quality improvement. Accreditation in the United States is more than a hundred years old, emerging from concerns to protect public health and safety and to serve the public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Nonprofit Organizations, Accreditation (Institutions)