CHEA has launched a Council of Experts on Quality Assurance and Accreditation to deepen its engagement with scholars and practitioners on emerging issues in academic quality. The council is designed to feed CHEA’s convenings, publications, and strategic initiatives—especially as institutions and accreditors grapple with student outcomes, assessment, institutional effectiveness, and the growing role of AI in teaching and learning. The advisory group will consist of 11 distinguished members drawn from across higher education, led by chair Dr. Stephen P. Hundley of Indiana University Indianapolis. CHEA positions the council as a structured network meant to help it interpret new trends affecting public trust in higher education and respond to rapidly evolving policy and institutional landscapes. CHEA’s focus signals an accreditation-and-assessment shift: as AI adoption moves from experimentation into core instructional practice, accrediting systems will face more explicit scrutiny over how institutions measure learning, validate effectiveness, and sustain integrity.