2009–2010 AAA COMMITTEES

Charge:
Advise the staff and Executive Committee on membership services for all current and potential members of the Association. Specifically:

To encourage new faculty to become actively involved in the association early in their careers.
To promote interaction among academics and accounting practitioners on shared interests through active involvement in AAA.
To sustain membership interest of members who are retired or nearing retirement.
To assess membership satisfaction levels and recommend actions as appropriate.
To determine reasons for the rather significant number of non-member accounting faculty.
To determine reasons for the large decline in practice members.
To provide a progress report to the Executive Committee liaison in time to be included in the agenda book for each Executive Committee meeting.

Membership:
New committee members are appointed annually by the President.

Meetings:
The committee will meet as needed.

Responsibilities:

Fulfill the committee charger above.
The Chair prepares and sends a progress report twice every term-year, with deadlines of October 23rd 2009 and February 26th 2010, to the Executive Committee Liaison, AAA President, and Executive Director regarding accomplishments or modifications.

Chair:

Monte Swain
Brigham Young University
Monte_Swain@byu.edu

Members:

Name Affiliation	Email	Term Length	Term Expires
Joanna Ho University of California-Irvine	jlho@uci.edu	3	08/2012
Marc Giullian Montana State University	mgiullian@montana.edu	3	08/2012
Sheldon Smith Utah Valley State	smithsh@uvu.edu	3	08/2012
Yvonne Ellis Columbus State University	ellis_yvonne@colstate.edu	2	08/2011
Paul Gillis Peking University	gillis@gsm.pku.edu.cn	2	08/2011
Tony Tinker Baruch College	Tony_Tinker@baruch.cuny.edu	2	08/2011
Jennifer Mueller Auburn University	jmueller@auburn.edu	1	08/2010
Elizabeth Oliver Washington and Lee University	olivere@wlu.edu	1	08/2010
Linda Tarrago Hillsborough Community College	ltarrago@hccfl.edu	1	08/2010

EC Liaison:

Chris Wolfe
Texas A&M University
cjwolfe@tamu.edu