National TransRegional Accrediting Association Council (NTAAC)

NTAAC's mission and purpose, is to lower the cost of accreditation to smaller

schools without compromising the quality and values of our educational system.

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Accreditation is a 100 years old institution, I have no intention that this letter would change anything but I felt compelled to write this. Many professionals, educators, and others have wrongly criticized some legitimate, honest accrediting agencies that do have every good intention to create a sound reputation for their agencies. The reason is this, either they working for, or own one accrediting agencies that is recognized already, or they simply cruel or unaware of the followings:

1.   in the United States, operate an Accrediting agency is not a legal designation neither at the state or federal level. It is rather a right to a voluntary process. The USDE forces no one to seek approval from them. What is require though, is quality, integrity, and honesty to the students we serve. Now if it is a voluntary process, it is, to my understanding, at the discretion of the each agency to concede or not. If a school decides not to concede, why it be pushed and labeled “Fake or phony?” 

2.      Before any agency can be approved or recognized, an agency must accredit other schools first. No accrediting agency can open its door today and tomorrow gets recognized. It’s rather a lengthy process. In the mean time, some students will be graduated with a “non-accredited degree.” Just like every other approved or recognized accrediting agencies, NTAAC is and will continue to make every effort to get to that point simply because we stand in compliance to the standards whether it’s voluntary or legislated. We simply have to start somewhere.

3.      Among those who have come to rely on Accreditation as a measure of a Private Schools competency and professional dedication include Parents, Students, Transfer Institutions, Curriculum Publishers, Grantors, Standardized Testing Groups, the U.S. Military, Colleges & Universities, Etc. It is up to the individual or Organization who relies on the Accredited Status of a Private School to accept, recognize, list or acknowledge that schools accredited status, based on their own internal policy. One Accrediting Organization is not legally designated as being superior over another. This what it seems to be but it is not so. It is voluntary everywhere! So let’s understand that. 

4.       The State is generally prohibited from interfering with the operation of a private school and does not necessarily imply approval, acceptance, acknowledgment, and listing or accredit the individual private school or the individual private schools accrediting organization. There are several organizations, with widely variant quality standards and program requirements that accredit private schools. Consequently, the acceptance of diplomas, transcripts and transfer credits for private school students is according to the requirements of the receiving institution. 

5.      In the United States, Accreditation is not a legal designation neither at the state or federal level. Accreditation is rather a voluntary process. Now if it is a voluntary process, it is, to my understanding, at the discretion of the each instruction to concede or not. If a school decides not to concede, why it be pushed and labeled “Fake or non-accredited?” 

6.      It should that a school or an accrediting agency be judged based on the quality of education or service their delivery, not because of the judgment of others, whether it’s a group or an individual. An educator whom his or her passion is to provide quality service, would do so regardless what his peers think. 

7.      I came across many regionally or nationally accredit institutions that fall very short to some “non accredited schools by putting their curriculum and their delivery method side by side.  So I concluded, Accreditation is exaggeratedly expensive and because a small institution that cannot ascribe to such an exaggeration should be penalized, even though the quality of education or service it provides is impeccable?