There were seven concurrent session devoted to the Teaching & Curriculum Section at the 1996 Annual Meeting in Chicago. These sessions were devoted to the following themes: The First Course in Accounting; Career Path Perspectives; Research on Teaching Methods and Student Learning; Approaches to Skills Development in the Accounting Classroom; Ethics in the Accounting Curriculum; Responding to Changes in Information Technology; and, Assessment: Classroom and Student Support Services. There were also two forum sessions, featuring 15 additional papers in the education area. This year's representative on the Program Committee for the Section was Donald E. Wygal, Rider University, an individual to whom the Section owes a big "Thank You" for putting together such an outstanding program on our behalf!

A total of 89 papers was submitted through the Section this year, the second largest number of any section in 1996. To accommodate the need to provide double-blind reviews for each manuscript, a 10-member Ad-Hoc Editorial Review Panel was formed to arrange for reviewers and to secure timely reviews of submitted manuscripts. This group worked very effectively under tight time constraints. Members of the Review Panel also often acted as reviewers themselves and provided helpful comments when wide differences were observable from the reviews for a given paper. Members of the Review Panel were:

Frank Buckless North Carolina State University

Janet Cassagio Nassau County College

Jeffrey Cohen Boston College

David Dennis Otterbein College

Karen Fortin University of Baltimore

Mohammed Hussein University of Connecticut

Richard L. Ott Kansas State University

Sue P. Ravenscroft Eastern Michigan University

James E. Rebele Lehigh University

Seleshi Sisaye Duquesne University

Ultimately, the backbone of the review process is the reviewer network itself. Sixty-eight individuals participated in the review process. Space limitations preclude us from recognizing each of these individuals separately. Rest assured, however, that you have our heartfelt "thanks" for a job well done.

I ask that we support in similar fashion this year's representative on the Program Committee, James E. Rebele, Lehigh University, to assist him in putting together an outstanding series of sessions for the meeting in Dallas. Please forward directly to Jim or to David Stout your thoughts and recommendations for any special sessions/workshops.