This is like the complaint about Tootsie Rolls, and different consumer products being placed in elementary school lessons.
The administrators are just opportunists, using whatever public resource they want, a la carte. They never actually create their own intellectual property, or anything of material value, or teach you how to think better. This is a sinecure.
They will say anything, you get them to say. Make them say what you want.
I would gladly contribute to an academic publication, to have 1,000 credentialed people, parroting me, over having a single certificate on my wall. You say it, outside of the context of academia, and it can never be true. 