In his five-year tenure, he revamped the curriculum, won accreditation for the school from the American Dental Association and promoted school-based health programs.

The beach-launched fishing fleet, based at the Stade remains Europe's largest and has recently won accreditation for its sustainable methods.

Last year a young law school in Massachusetts failed to win accreditation from the American Bar Association.

During his presidency from 1955 to 1960, the university first won accreditation from the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges.

In 1972 it took over a small, struggling Baptist college in Atlanta that had failed to win academic accreditation after almost a decade in existence.

By 1948, Dr. Sheinin had won accreditation for the school by consistently strengthening its curriculum along with its financial and community support.

The University of Bridgeport wins renewed accreditation.

In 1913 it became the third school in the state to win accreditation.

In Indiana, all of the state's prisons won accreditation from a national correctional health group three years after Prison Health arrived, in 1997.

To win accreditation, schools meet 12 standards, which address such issues as class size to diversity within the faculty and curriculum.