There are some exciting things related to the Teaching & Curriculum Section that I would like to share with the membership.

Under the direction of Don Wygal, Rider University, we had a very successful education component and representation at this year's annual meeting. Our thanks to Don and to all who worked with him in organizing the Teaching & Curriculum sessions. A more detailed report regarding this year's meeting is presented elsewhere in this Newsletter.

As incoming president I have constituted what I believe to be important standing committees whose primary charge, members, and chair are listed later in this report. Although each of these committees has a specific charge for the coming year, it is important to note also that committees will likely lay the foundation for many of the future accomplishments and activities of our Section. I am excited about the strong show of volunteer support for these committees and the enthusiasm with which the chairs of the committees have agreed to serve. I think you will agree that the Section is now starting to mature to the point where we need to concentrate more on long-term issues of interest to the membership and developing a strategic vision of where we want to go and what we want to be. My overall theme in selecting the committees that I did was to focus on important activities related to both the Teaching and Curriculum dimensions of our namesake.

Our Section has a major cost issue to contend with, viz., overseas mailing costs for both this Newsletter and any special documents that the Section may produce. At the Executive Committee Meeting in Chicago this past August, it was recommended that in the future this Newsletter be made available to our overseas members only via the Internet, an action that would result in significant cost savings to our Section. We value the overseas membership component of our Section most highly. At the same time, fiscal responsibility dictates a new policy with respect to overseas mailings. (For example, even though overseas members represent a small percentage of membership in the Section, overseas mailing costs for this Newsletter are actually higher than mailing costs for the entire domestic membership.)All overseas members are therefore asked to consult a later section in this Newsletter for information regarding the Section's policy change with respect to overseas mailings.

Our Section's representative on the AAA National Program Committee for 1997 will be James E. Rebele, Lehigh University. Jim will be putting together a review team in the near future. Please support Jim through your service as a reviewer, moderator, or discussant at next year's meeting. Jim's address information is given later in this Newsletter.

Under the direction of Bill N. Schwartz, Virginia Commonwealth University, the Section is evaluating the desirability and feasibility of having a mid-year meeting. All members of the Section should receive a survey form designed to obtain feedback regarding this issue soon.

I am happy to announce that the Executive Committee of the Section has agreed to publish, in conjunction with the Center for Research in Accounting Education, James Madison University, a monograph titled A Framework for Encouraging Effective Teaching. This monograph was completed by a team headed by Alex Gabbin, James Madison University, and Tom Calderon, University of Akron. We anticipate sending a copy to the primary administrator of each domestic institution listed in Hasselback's Directory.

Because many of you may not have had the chance to attend the address made at the Annual Meeting to all AAA members by Thomas E. Moore, I asked Don Wygal (our informal roving reporter) to draft a summary of Mr. Moore presentation. I think you will find the essence of the report stimulating, if not disturbing.

Finally, I want to wish each of you a very successful and productive academic year. I am proud to have been chosen to head the Teaching & Curriculum Section this year and would like to express my sincere appreciation to those who have succeeded me in this appointment for the solid foundation that was created (Frederick L. Neumann, Jan R. Williams, Jay M. Smith, Jr., Richard E. Baker, and E. Kent St. Pierre).