ED Accreditation Committee Recommends Suspending APA

Inside Higher Ed

Josh Moody

September 25, 2026

But, the panel also didn’t make a decision about the status of the law school accreditor, deadlocking once again on the issue.

Following scathing third-party comments, an Education Department accreditation committee voted to recommend suspending recognition for the American Psychological Association Commission on Accreditation over alleged failures to address antisemitism.

Speakers from Jewish advocacy organizations, professors in APA-accredited programs, and individuals working in private practices unleashed a flurry of complaints on the second day of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity’s (NACIQI) meeting this month. They accused the APA of allowing antisemitic behavior in its programs to go unchecked. Others, including conversion therapy proponents, railed against the organization for its alleged embrace of “gender ideology.”

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