Charge:

1. Evaluate the effectiveness of the International Lecturers program. The evaluation should include seeking input from the Globalization Initiatives Committee.
2. Recommend discontinuance, continuance without modification, or continuance with modification.
3. If continuation with modification is recommended, address issues including (a) whether both incoming and outgoing lectureships should be continued, (b) areas of the world that should be targeted for visits, (c) assistance that should be provided to lecturers by AAA, (d) approaches to increasing the value of the program to lecturers and AAA, and (e) funding.
4. Present a report summarizing committee responses to charges 2 and 3 to the AAA Executive Committee in time for consideration at its spring 2001 meeting.
5. If continuation of outgoing lectureships is recommended, select the area for the outgoing lecturer to visit in 2003.
6. Provide a progress report to the Executive Committee liaison in time to be included in the agenda book for each Executive Committee meeting.

Chair:

Professor Stephen A. Zeff
Herbert S. Autrey Professor
Accounting Faculty
Jones Graduate School of Management
Rice University
Houston, TX 77005-1892
Phone number: (713) 348-6066
Fax number: (713) 348-5251
E-mail address: sazeff@rice.edu

Members:

Andrew D. Bailey, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Raymond J. Ball (Ray), University of Chicago
Helen Gernon, University of Oregon
Yuji Ijiri, Carnegie Mellon University
Mohan Venkatachalam, Stanford University
Frederick H. Wu, University of North Texas

Executive Committee Liaison:

C. S. Agnes Cheng
AAA Vice-President International
University of Houston

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