N. Victor Goodman Appointed To Board Of Directors Of The Council For Higher Education Accreditation

October 30, 2023

Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP is pleased to announce the appointment of N. Victor Goodman to a three-year term on the 17-person, board of directors of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Mr. Goodman is a partner in Benesch, Friedlander’s Public Law Practice Group and a member of the firm’s executive committee.

CHEA is a national, private, nonprofit membership organization of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and 60 institutional programmatic accreditors. It is the sole coordinating organization of accreditation, quality assurance, and quality improvement of higher education in the United States.

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