CHEA established a Council of Experts on Quality Assurance and Accreditation to strengthen its engagement with scholars and practitioners on issues shaping academic quality. The council’s stated focus includes student outcomes, assessment and institutional effectiveness, innovation in teaching and learning, and the growing role of artificial intelligence in higher education. The initiative is advisory and designed to complement CHEA’s governance structure by informing CHEA convenings, publications, and strategic initiatives with evidence-based perspectives from across the sector. The council will be chaired by Dr. Stephen P. Hundley of Indiana University Indianapolis. For accrediting and compliance professionals, the development signals a formalization of AI-related quality conversations within CHEA’s broader quality-assurance agenda—an indicator that assessment and integrity expectations tied to AI use may be increasingly prominent in accreditation discourse.