College of Education

Accreditations

The Richard W. Riley College of Education and degree programs within the college are accredited or nationally recognized by the following professional associations.  The college as a unit, which consists of all teacher education programs in the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences, is accredited by the National Council on Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).   

Our degree programs are nationally recognized and accredited through the following professional associations:

• American Council on the Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
• Council on Exceptional Children (CEC)
• International Reading Association (IRA)
• National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC)
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
• Association of Childhood Education International (ACEI)
• Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA)
• National Association of Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)
• National Middle School Association (NMLE)
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• Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE)
• Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)