Virginia Assessment Group

William L. Hathaway, Ph.D., is the Provost of Regent University. He has been in academic leadership roles for nearly three decades, having previously served as a Dean and doctoral program director. He spent several years as an Air Force psychologist and has been active in professional service roles at the state and national level. In his years as a clinician, he previously served as a quality assurance officer for psychiatry and mental health departments in Joint Commission accredited military hospitals. He has served on two negotiated rule making committees for the U.S. Department of Education, both of which resulted in consensus. In 2019, he served on the Faith Entities subcommittee for the accreditation rulemaking process and in 2026, he served on the Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization committee as a negotiator representing private non-profit universities. His background in the different legs of the “regulatory triad” impacting higher education (i.e, accreditation, state governments, and the U.S. Department of Education) was a focus for the AIM committee. He has extensive experience in the various aspects of programmatic accreditation, having served for nearly two decades as a commissioner or in other roles for the American Psychological Association’s Commission on Accreditation. He was a co-writer of APA’s current Standards of Accreditation and implementing regulations, conducted self-study reviews, chaired site visits, and led numerous self-study workshops. In terms of state regulation, he has been a long serving member of the Virginia Board of Psychology, chairing both the board and its regulatory committee.