Winter 2025

NAAB Announces 2026 Officers and New Directors

At its meeting on October 24-25, 2025, the Board of Directors elected the 2026 officers and new directors.

Congratulations to the newly elected officers and directors!

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Reminder Call for Public Comment: Proposed Revisions to 2020 Conditions & Procedures for Accreditation

Your voice is important. Please use this survey to add your feedback on the proposed changes. The survey will remain open until December 22, 2025.

Proposed Revisions to Conditions

NAAB continually adapts to changes in the architecture education landscape, and stakeholder input is vital to this process. The proposed updates respond to recent federal and state policy shifts—particularly those affecting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)—and are intended to ensure that the Conditions remain aligned with current legal and regulatory requirements while continuing to support high-quality architecture programs. We encourage you to review the proposed revisions and share your feedback before the comment period closes.

• Click here to view a red-line document outlining the specific changes in the Conditions.
• Click here to view the “clean” version, with the changes incorporated in the document.

Proposed Revisions to Procedures

To improve and streamline the accreditation process, the Board of Directors reviewed program feedback and proposed updates to the policies on Corrections of Errors of Fact and Program Responses to the VTR, aiming to provide greater clarity and better support for programs.

• Click here to view a red-line document outlining the specific changes in the Procedures (PDF page 20-21).
• Click here to view the “clean” version, with the changes incorporated in the document.

Join Your Peers in NAAB’s New Online Communities!

Program directors, program faculty and staff, visiting team members, and visiting team chairs now have access to online communities on NAAB’s website. Each community provides its members with opportunities to share resources and tools, brainstorm a problem, ask for advice, and discuss issues tailored to the needs and perspectives of the membership.

If you are a director of a NAAB-accredited or candidate program, a member of the faculty or staff of an accredited or candidate program, or a member of NAAB’s pool of volunteer site visitors and you have not received an invitation, please reach out to us at accreditation@naab.org.

If you have received an invitation and have not yet participated in a discussion, please join your colleagues and help create a special resource for programs and evaluators.

Accreditation Updates

Public Notice of Actions

At its recent October 2025 meeting, the Board of Directors took actions on programs that hosted accreditation visits in Spring 2025. Thank you to NAAB volunteers and programs for supporting the organization's programmatic efforts!

For more information, please refer to the Accreditation Notice of Actions page.

Accreditation Reminders

Annual Report Deadline: December 15

The Annual Report deadline is fast approaching!

Only programs granted initial accreditation or continuing accreditation by NAAB are required to submit an Annual Report. Reports are to be submitted every year, including the year in which the Architecture Program Report (APR) is due. The purpose of the Annual Report is to update program records and provide information about each program’s continuing compliance with the Conditions for Accreditation during the program’s accreditation cycle. In addition, programs report key data that NAAB compiles, analyzes, and communicates to the public through NAAB publications.

Annual Reports are submitted through NAAB’s Accreditation Management System (AMS), which facilitates and streamlines both program reporting and volunteer review. Click here for information about the Annual Report and how to access the AMS.



As a reminder, programs that fail to submit the report by December 15 will be assessed a late fee of $100 per day until the report is submitted. Programs that fail to submit the Annual Report, after notice, will be placed on Administrative Probation.

Upcoming & Recent Events

Thank you to the nearly 300 attendees that joined us for office hours in 2025! We look forward to seeing you in 2026!

Starting in January, we will return to our newly expanded schedule of twice monthly Office Hours sessions.

• 12:00 to 1:00 pm ET on the 2nd Tuesday of each month
• 4:00 to 5:00 pm ET on the 4th Thursday of each month

Register to attend this or any upcoming session on the Workshops and Program Trainings page of our website. Once registered, you’ll receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link.

NAAB Presentation at ACSA Conference

NAAB Manager of Accreditation Robin Hemenway and NAAB President-elect Mark Mistur recently led a workshop at the ACSA Administrators Conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The topic of the three-hour workshop was “How to Host a Successful On-Campus Site Visit.” A copy of the presentation is available for download from the Workshops and Program Trainings page of our website.

Spring 2026 Site Visits

The following 24 institutions have a NAAB Continuing Accreditation Visit taking place this Spring:

• Andrews University (M.Arch.)
• Auburn University (B.Arch.)
• Boston Architectural College (B.Arch., M.Arch.)
• California College of the Arts (B.Arch., M.Arch.)
• Carnegie Mellon University (B.Arch.)
• Clemson University (M.Arch.)
• Florida Atlantic University (B.Arch.)
• Florida International University (M.Arch.)
• Howard University (M.Arch.)
• Indiana University (M.Arch.)
• Kansas State University (M.Arch.)
• Louisiana Tech University (M.Arch.)
• Norwich University (M.Arch.)
• Oklahoma State University (B.Arch.)
• Thomas Jefferson University (B.Arch.)
• Tuskegee University (B.Arch.)
• University of Hartford (M.Arch.)
• University of Maryland (M.Arch.)
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas (M.Arch.)
• University of Texas at Austin (B.Arch., M.Arch.)
• University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (M.Arch.)
• Virginia Tech (B.Arch., M.Arch.)
• Washington University in St. Louis (M.Arch.)
• Wentworth Institute of Technology (M.Arch.)

Happy Holidays from NAAB!

NAAB Office Holiday Closures

The NAAB Office will be closed on the following days for the upcoming holidays:

• December 24, 2025
• December 25, 2025

• December 31, 2025
• January 1, 2026