In 2020, the Commission on the Accreditation of Early Childhood Higher Education Programs appointed a workgroup – comprised of stakeholders across the early childhood education profession – to lead the effort of revising the accreditation standards. Over the course of several months, the Standards Workgroup and Commission considered the strengths and challenges of the current accreditation standards, gathered feedback from the accreditation community, and considered the needs and guidelines of the early childhood education profession. For more information on the accreditation standards for NAEYC Higher Education Accreditation, please visit our standards overview page. 

Members of the NAEYC Workgroup Informing the Revisions to the NAEYC Higher Education Accreditation Standards

• Deb Adams, Workforce Specialist, Connecticut Office of Early Learning
• Nancy Barbour, Retired Faculty, Kent State University and James Madison University
• Kelli Boniecki, Early Care and Education Program Director, Technical College of the Lowcountry
• Paige Bray, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Hartford
• Eric Bucher, Executive Director, AzAEYC
• Benita Flores-Muñoz, Associate Professor of Child Development, Del Mar College
• Donna Gollnick, Retired, TEACH-NOW and CAEP
• Ronda Hawkins, Early Childhood Professor and Assistant Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, Sandhills Community College
• Benita Hunter, Associate Professor of Child Development, Kennedy-King College
• Jayme Hines, Assistant Professor of Education, Keene State College
• Elsa Jones, Program Chair, Early Childhood Education, Post University
• Bridget Murray, Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education Program Coordinator, Henderson Community College
• Wei Qiu, Chair of the Department of Child and Family Studies, Weber State University
• Ashley Simpson, Chair of the Education and Early Childhood Education Department, Community College of Aurora
• Crystal Swank, Retired Faculty, Truckee Meadows Community College