Committee Reports
Editor's Note: Reports from five of our standing committees follow. We will
include other committee reports in future issues. Please check the T&C
Website for updates on committee activities.
Shared Experiences Committee Report
Committee Composition:
Chair: Paul Solomon, San Jose State University, Emeritus
Charles Carpenter, Berry College
Araya Debessay, University of Delaware
Mary Fischer, University of Texas at Tyler
Jerry Weinstein, John Carroll University
Committee Charge:
Value Statement: The wisdom gained over the course of an academic
career represents a valuable resource that should be shared with other
colleagues rather than lost through retirement.
Mission Statement: Plan, develop, and implement accounting education
forums to enable distinguished senior faculty to share with colleagues their
career experiences and accumulated wisdom.
Objectives:
- To identify eminent senior faculty in each region who will share their
professional insights with others
- To establish permanent sessions at AAA meetings and other accounting
education conferences so that these scholars can share their experiences and
wisdom with their colleagues
- To provide continuity among generations by sharing invaluable insights with
faculty who are new or not planning to soon retire
- To restore the dignity and respect that these eminent scholars richly
deserve
- To reinforce the belief that there are senior faculty among us who, despite
not being fully valued by some, still have much to contribute
Panel Session Acceptances:
AAA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 12-15
Moderator: Mary Fischer, University of Texas at Tyler
Title: Distinguished Faculty Share Their Experiences to Help You in Your Career
Panelists: Bill Ferrara, Stetson University; Lynn Mazzola, Nassau Community
College; Milton Usry, University of West Florida; and Peter Wilson, Boston
College
Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, Morgantown, WV, March 29-31
Program Chair: Richard C. Brooks, West Virginia University
Panel Time: Friday, March 30, 3:30 - 5:00 P.M.
Title: How to Achieve Balance Between Teaching, Research, and Service in Your
Academic Career
Moderator: Don Wygal, Rider University
Panelists: Charles Smith, Penn State University, Ann Pushkin, University of
West Virginia, and Araya Debessay, University of Delaware.
Midwest Regional Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, April 5-7
Program Chair: Inder Khurana, University of Missouri
Panel Time: Saturday, April 7, 9:00 A.M.
Title: How to Balance Teaching, Research, and Service in Your Academic Career
Moderator: Dick Baker, Northern Illinois University
Panelists: Jack Gray, Michigan State University; Loren Nikolai, University of
Missouri; and Kevin Stocks, Brigham Young University.
Northeast Regional Meeting, Portland, Maine, May 3-5
Program Chair: Philip Jagolinzer, University of Southern Maine
Panel Time: 10:45 - Noon, Friday, May 4
Title: Teaching, Scholarship, and Service, the 'Real' Balanced Scorecard:
Shared Experiences of Senior Faculty. Moderator: Don Wygal, Rider University
Panelists: Richard Vangermeerch, University of Rhode Island, Corinne Norgaard,
University of Hartford, Anthony Krzystofik, University of Massachusetts, and
Clifford Brown, Bentley College.
Ohio Regional Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, April 19-21
Program Chair: Gerald Weinstein, John Carroll University
Panel Time: 10:30 - 11:20 AM, Friday, April 20
Title: How to Achieve Balance Between Teaching, Research, and Service in Your
Academic Career
Moderator: Gerald Weinstein, John Carroll University
Panelists: Bill Bentz, Ohio State University; Gary Previts, Case Western
Reserve University; Roland Madison, John Carroll University; Ray Stephens, Ohio
State University.
Southeast Regional Meeting, Tampa, Florida, April 26-28
Program Chairs: Susan and Dan Ivancevich, University of North Carolina at
Wilmington
Panel Time: 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM, Saturday, April 28.
Title: Shared Experiences: Eminent Senior/Emeritus Faculty Share Tips for a
Successful Academic Career
Moderator: Chuck Carpenter, Berry College
Panelists: Jim Hasselback, Florida State University; Roger Hermansen, Georgia
State University; and Mary Stone, University of Alabama.
Western Regional Meeting, San Jose, CA, May 3-5
Program Chair: Robert Holtfreter, Central Washington University
Panel Time: Friday morning, May 4
Title: How to Achieve Balance Between Teaching, Research, and Service in Your
Academic Career
Moderator: Paul Solomon, San Jose State University, Emeritus
Panelists: Charles Horngren, Stanford University, Mark Massoud, Claremont
McKenna College, and Gary Sundem, University of Washington
IDEAS:
- Panel Session Titles:
a. How to Balance Teaching, Research, and Service in Your Academic Career
b. How to Enhance Your Skills as an Accounting Scholar
c. How Listening to Your Elders Can Help You Make Better Career Decisions
d. How to Re-Energize an Underutilized Resource - Your Senior Faculty
- Establish a chat room that would be monitored by the members of the Shared
Experience Committee.
- How should junior faculty interpret their course evaluations?
- Establish a mentoring program patterned after the University of Southern
Maine experience to help junior faculty achieve tenure.
Program Committee Report
Georgia C. Saemann, Chair
The T&C Section received a little more than 70 paper and panel
submissions. We were assigned 8 paper, 2 panel, and 12 forum sessions for the
annual meeting.
The session headings are as follows:
Papers:
- Doctoral Programs and Tenure
- Service Learning and Student Competencies
- Learning Techniques and Instruction Cases in Financial Accounting
- Innovations in Accounting Education
- CPA Exam and Job Search Performance
- Alternative Teaching Methods
- Administration and Curriculum
Panels:
- Integrating E-business issues into accounting courses (with IS)
- Resources for Implementing the AICPA Core Competency Framework
New Faculty Handbook Committee Report
Lynn Griffin, Chair
The New Faculty Handbook Committee has completed the handbook and has
forwarded it to the Section Chair for publication and distribution.
The Research In Accounting Education Committee Report
Carolyn Strand, Chair
Our committee research is focused on communications skills (writing and
speaking). We selected the decade of the 1990s to discover what has been
written on the subject of communications skills. We have searched the 5
accounting education journals (as well as other specific accounting journals).
Although we are very concerned about these skills in accounting, we know that
these are skills that should be of great concern to all the business
disciplines. Thus, we searched those education journals to discover what the
other business disciplines are reporting. Our search included: the Journal of
Management Education, the Journal of Marketing Education, and the Journal of
Financial Education for articles on this topic for the period of 1990-1999.
Believing that the education and journalism literature will also help inform
our research in this area, we are searching a wide variety of those journals
and have found quite a number of articles in such journals as Business
Communication Quarterly, The Journal of Business Communication, Occupational
Outlook Quarterly, and others. We expect to finalize our report so that we may
deliver this to the Chair of the Teaching & Curriculum Section at the AAA
Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
Two-Year College Issues Committee Report
Susan V. Crosson, Chair
The Two Year College Section of the American Accounting Association with
support from an IMA Faculty Enhancement Grant offers the following CPE workshop
for two-year college faculty who teach the first accounting courses:
More Than A Classroom, Blending Technology into First Year
Accounting Courses
A Workshop to Encourage Teaching Excellence
A hands-on workshop experience divided into four segments where faculty
will:
- TEACH: Apply CD, video, and web-based teaching resources developed by
publishers, colleagues, and professional organizations (i.e. IMA, AAA) or
active learning approaches such as group learning.
- Explore how to integrate them effectively into beginning accounting
courses.
Outcome: Participants will create a teaching plan and materials for a topic.
- LEARN: Investigate proven student-centered learning activities developed by
colleagues and brainstorm with the faculty designer about the relevance of the
activities for their courses.
Outcome: Participants will design or adapt a learning activity for a topic.
- ASSESS: Learn about goal-based assessment and examine faculty developed
assessment alternatives.
Outcome: Participants will develop an assessment for a topic.
- SHARE: Presentation of participants' teaching, learning, and assessment
materials and ideas to receive feedback from peers. Also, a time to identify
other issues common to beginning accounting courses that warrant further
dialogue among participants.
Who Should Attend:
Teaching faculty of the beginning accounting courses committed to teaching
excellence and course innovation primarily from two-year colleges. Participants
will be held accountable to produce teaching, learning, and assessment
materials to share with other faculty teaching the first courses in accounting.
These web-ready materials will be offered to accounting education related
websites such as the IMA, AAA, or AICPA websites to make available to their
membership. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to bring a laptop
computer and all software and files they plan to use in course development
(i.e., your files and all relevant resources/texts obtained for your course
from publisher resources).
Workshop Specifics:
The workshop is scheduled for Sunday August 12 in conjunction with the 2001 AAA
national meeting in Atlanta. There will be a minimal fee of $65 for Two Year
Section members (section dues are $10) or the full day CPE rate for non-section
members to attend the August workshop. Registration will be limited.
Why A Workshop:
- Users of accounting gain their lasting impression of what accounting is in
the first accounting courses. For many, it is their only exposure to
accounting. Over half of these courses are taught at a community college. All
faculty need to be involved in the process of developing dynamic resources for
teaching, learning, and assessment of these courses.
- Since many of current accounting faculty at both two-year and four-year
colleges will be retiring in the next five years, the workshop is an
opportunity to signal what it means to be the teaching faculty of beginning
accounting courses.
- The development of resources in a workshop setting opens the conversation
about how accounting is changing and what impact it has on our courses when
faculty are ready to implement change.
- The workshop models and rewards exemplary faculty practice. It provides a
venue to identify potential master teachers who can provide mentoring to new
faculty members.
- The workshop provides proven examples of how to meaningfully integrate
current technologies into beginning accounting courses for faculty reluctant to
change.
- The workshop allows faculty to gain confidence in leveraging the
possibilities of new technologies and practice how they will implement change
into their courses.
- The workshop allows trust and collaborative partnerships to form between
participants for future dialogue about accounting courses and the demands of
our profession.
For additional information, contact Susan V. Crosson.
susancrosson@sfcc.net or
352-395-5137 or register on the AAA website-Annual Meeting CPE offerings
http://aaa-edu.org
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