[Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared as a letter to the editor in response to “Busting the ABA’s Accreditation Monopoly,” published Aug. 29 in the Wall Street Journal.]
The American Bar Association unfortunately isn’t alone in having an accreditation monopoly (“Busting the ABA’s Accreditation Monopoly,” Review & Outlook, Aug. 29). The same is true for many other organizations, including the American Psychological Association Commission on Accreditation, whose status as an accreditor is now up for renewal. Like the American Bar Association, the American Psychological Association is a professional association with an in-house accreditation arm. And, like the ABA, the APA temporarily suspended its DEI standards in 2025. But suspension isn’t the same as removal, and the Education Department is right to see to it that these standards are eliminated, as has been done by accreditors for schools of medicine, podiatry and optometry.
Read the full piece in the Wall Street Journal.
