Council Member-at-Large Nominee

Margarita Maria Lenk
Margarita Maria Lenk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and the Department of Computer Information Systems in the College of Business at Colorado State University. She earned her Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of South Carolina, and her areas of interest for accounting research include information systems, and cognitive and social psychology. Her Master's degree is from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her undergraduate accounting degree was earned at the University of Central Florida.

Professor Lenk currently teaches internet business strategies in the M.B.A. program, and an active learning introduction to business freshman seminar course. She has taught accounting information systems, cost accounting, and financial and managerial accounting at the undergraduate level, and M.B.A. accounting, controllership and advanced cost courses at the graduate level. She has received many awards, including the 2002 CSU College of Business Outstanding Professor, 2001 College of Business Service Award, the 2000 Advising Award at Colorado State University, and the 1997 Outstanding Accounting Educator in the State of Colorado Award, and the 1996-97 Instructional Innovation in Service Learning Award at Colorado State University.

Professor Lenk has also published articles, case studies, monographs, chapters, instructors manuals and resources, some of which were published in Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Information Systems Education, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Review of Accounting Information Systems, Business Communication Quarterly, Journal of Restaurant and Food Service Marketing, Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Property Valuation & Investment, The Appraiser Journal, and International Journal of Media Management. She is a volunteer reviewer for many different journals.

For the past 13 years, Professor Lenk has been an active member of the Information Systems, Teaching and Curriculum, and the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (AIET) sections of the AAA. She has chaired the Active Learning Committee within the Teaching and Curriculum section, has written the newsletter for and is the 2003 track chair for the AAA Annual Meeting for the AIET section. She is also a Certified Management Accountant, a member of the Institute of Management Accountants, a member of the AICPA Professor-Practitioner Case Development Task Force, a faculty committee member of the KPMG Ph.D. Project, and an international consultant for service-learning with the Campus Compact and the American Association for Higher Education. Margarita's signature includes her infectious enthusiasm, her dedication to program improvement and active learning methodologies, her focus on student success and the social responsibilities of accountants, and her "roll up your sleeves and get to work" style.

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