Joseph tried diligently to find a job as a Christian counselor to bring in some income for our family, but no place—not even evangelical organizations—considered his master’s degree in counseling from Bob Jones University a legitimate credential. BJU’s staff had duped us into thinking that accreditation was a meaningless term, but we were learning the hard way that it mattered a great deal. In fact, accreditation serves a vetting process—validation that the education a college or university provides is reputable and high-quality based on standards set by a peer review board. It would be
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