"raise status" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example: "His hard work and dedication have helped him to raise his status in the office."
And a nation can reinforce or even raise status and authority by employing that authority.
A National College of Social Work will be established to raise status and standards in the profession.
As wages level off, medals and awards that raise status without costing hard currency might substitute as compensation, as practiced in the Soviet period, beginning principally in the 1930s, when such status symbols, rather than salaries, measured accomplishment.
The next Democratic president was not Bill Clinton's wife -- though it was a close call -- but the transparency-promising Barack Obama, who quickly raised status anxiety among white young "professionals" to new heights.
The raised status of journal club activity, for example, was promoted to not only value this as a forum for reading and discussing new research findings, but also as a tool to support research projects through critically appraising relevant literature.
"There was an idea that the liberation of workers depended in great degree on raising their status, on raising their image of themselves, on raising their horizons.
Most importantly, we must raise the status of teaching.
It will raise our status in American society".
We felt the stress of trying to raise our status.
Now surely this is the way to raise the status of a qualification.
This could offer real career progression and help raise the status of home care.
