The Commission on Accreditation (CoA) held its fall 2019 program review meeting on Oct. 17-20, 2019, in Washington, D.C. The CoA reviewed 101 programs; 93 for initial or continued accreditation and eight for site visit authorization. The CoA also reviewed and made decisions regarding submissions from programs who submitted proposals to teach out students from Argosy University.
The commission elected its leadership team for 2020: Cindy Juntunen, PhD, will be the CoA chair; Cami McBride, PhD, will be associate chair of program review; and Georita Frierson, PhD, will be associate chair of quality assurance. The CoA’s workgroups and policy groups convened to review policy and begin preparing for next year’s policy and program review priorities.
Specific program decisions from the October 2019 meeting are available on the Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation website. As of Oct. 20, 2019, the commission accredits 1,201 programs. A summary of accredited programs follows:
| Programs (level and area) | Accredited programs | ||||
| Doctoral programs | Area | PhD | PsyD | ||
| Full | Contingent | Full | Contingent | ||
| Clinical | 172 | 3 | 59 | 6 | |
| Counseling | 64 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
| School | 57 | 1 | 8 | 2 | |
| Combined | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |
| Total doctoral programs | 395 | ||||
| Internship programs | Full | Contingent | |||
| 603 | 39 | ||||
| Total internship programs | 642 | ||||
| Postdoctoral residency programs | Area | Full | Contingent | ||
| Traditional — clinical | 90 | 3 | |||
| Clinical child psychology | 7 | 0 | |||
| Clinical health psychology | 12 | 1 | |||
| Clinical neuropsychology | 30 | 8 | |||
| Forensic psychology | 1 | 0 | |||
| Geropsychology | 3 | 0 | |||
| Rehabilitation psychology | 8 | 1 | |||
| Total postdoctoral programs | 164 | ||||
| Total | 1201 | ||||