Accreditation
Last week was the most hectic for my campus, particularly for the Management Department, as we faced accreditation.
The interesting part is that all the data we provided was based on our actual experiences, such as the number of active students, students’ academic achievements, and the number of faculty citations over the past three years.
However, some aspects of this accreditation process don’t make sense to me. The preparation phase, in particular, feels like a waste of time, energy, and mental effort, even though accreditation objectively evaluates an institution’s historical achievements. Why not just present the reality as it is?
I believe the issue lies not with the accreditation itself but with its technical implementation, which is often flawed. Instead of assessors or accreditors visiting and being handed data by the institution, why don’t they conduct random visits and collect data themselves or use an anonymous third party to gather it? This current system opens the door to manipulation, exaggeration, and subjective biases, which erode trust in the assessors’ evaluation. Reforming this process would ensure a more transparent and credible accreditation system in the future.