Teaching and Curriculum Section
Business Meeting
August 4, 2003
- Meeting called to order by Frank Buckless. Welcome and introductions were made. Frank read a report from out-going chairperson Dasaratha Rama and expressed her thanks to the officers who had helped during the year.
- Treasurer's Report by Bill Cummings. Beginning cash for the year was $89,170.75 and cash as the date of the meeting was $94,797.60. Some items of interest was dues of $12,466.00 (1,371 members) versus the budgeted of $14,000.00. The section had not received the annual council fee bill or annual breakfast bill as of the date of the meeting.
- Introduction of new Officers. Election was held through the Internet. New officers elected Chairperson, Frank Buckless; Vice Chairperson - Practice, Robert Dean; Vice Chairperson - Academic, Thomas Calderon.
- Committee Reports
- Program Chair - Tim Fogarty announced that there were 89 papers submitted; 178 reviewers; 30 papers accepted; 7 papers in the forum; 1 panel and papers in the poster session.
- Improving Teaching/Learning with Teachnology - Faye Bothick announced the on-line teaching resource of MERLO; encouraged all to join; peer-reviewed.
- T&C Connections - Don Wygal reported on the website; cyber tech to connect members as reported in the spring issue of the newsletter. It is a forum to discuss hot topics about what worked and what didn't. Members should meet the executive board. The regionals should have hairs and associate chairs for continuity. Rama had a chat room on Yahoo, which was successful.
- Shared Experiences - Tom Clameer for Paul Solomon mentioned the ad for the Change in Accounting Education Symposium. The Shared Experiences committee had panels at the regional meetings; attendence varied. For 2004, the committee was focusing on "Taking Back the Classrooms," which would focus on the challenges in the classroom and grade inflation. The committee was looking for additional people to help with the panels.
- Integration of Technology in the Accounting Curriculum - Nancy Bagranoff for Skip White looked at guidelines, IMA and the work of past committee. The committee did a survey and got responses from 150 practitioners and 70 academics; the results are to analyzed. The committee is also looking at the databases and software packages used by practitioners and academics.
- Assessment Committee - Thomas Calderon reports on the Best Practices Monograph draft compiled over 2 years. A CD copy of the report will be given to all T&C members. Hard copies will be available for an additional fee. The document contains three sections including why assessment fails.
- Research Award Committee - Mahendra Gujarahi reported that an award was not in 2003. The committee had looked at twenty plus accounting education journals, but most authors lacked membership in the T&C. The committee will continue another year and determine criteria of the award. The committee also suggested promoting membership in the T&C.
- Service Learning - Susan Wolcott pursued examples of service learning through citizenship and civic engagements. The committee would like examples of these types of activities, how to promote this type of learning and professional level of these activities.
- Introductory Accounting Sequence - Paul Mihalek has pilot tested a survey. The complete survey and results should be complete by December.
- Jim Rebele announced the 20th Anniversary of Journal of Accounting Education would be commemorated by a conference in Philadelphia in June 2004.
- Doyle Williams announced two sessions on AACSB issues and learning assurance were being held in Hawaii to attain feedback.
- Frank Buckless discussed the upcoming year including the outlook for accounting education scholarship, a proposal for what it means to be accounting professional and bylaw revisions.
- Meeting adjourned at 8:10 a.m.
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