1971 — Founded in 1947 as the National Chiropractic Association’s Council on Education, today’s Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) became a division of the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) when the new organization was established in 1963-64.

Emblem of the Council on Chiropractic Education

In the late 1960s, as the Council competed with the Association of Chiropractic Colleges for recognition from the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) as the accrediting agency for chiropractic schools, it became apparent that one barrier to USOE recognition was the Council’s political subordination to one of the feuding national membership societies (ACA).

To overcome this obstacle, the CCE was independently chartered in 1971 and offered seats on its governing board to both the ACA and the International Chiropractors’ Association (ICA), as well as to representatives of its constituent (accredited) colleges and the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards.

The CCE’s structure also included a Commission on Accreditation, a subdivision that performed the tasks involved in inspecting and judging the quality of instruction provided at any particular school. George Haynes, DC, MS, longtime administrative dean of the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, served as the first president of the CCE (1971-1972).