Program

New Chairpersons' Seminar
Sunday February 4
8:00 am – 12:00 pm

8:00 am – 8:15 am
Welcome
Kate Mooney, St. Cloud State University

8:15 am – 9:45 am
An Era of Personal Confusion for the New Chair
Panel presentation on time man-agement, developing professional contacts, establishing relationships with secretaries, assistants, and staff, and student recruitment.
Moderator: Dick Kochanek, University of Connecticut

Keith Stanga, University of Tennessee
Finley Graves, Kansas State University
Dave Fordham, James Madison University

9:45 am – 10:00 am
Break

10:00 am – 11:00 am
An Era of Change in Faculty/ Chair Relationships
Panel of experienced chairs with ideas for providing meaningful evaluations for tenure and promotion, dealing with faculty governance structures, and post-tenure review process.
Moderator: Dave Smith, Iowa State University

Kate Mooney, St. Cloud State University
Francis Ayres, University of Oklahoma

11:00 am – Noon
An Era of Change in Fund-Raising
Presentations by veterans on establishing relationships with your new alumni, working with, not in competition with, your Dean and the University fund-raisers, and ideas for effective fund-raising.
Moderator: Cliff Skousen, Utah State University
Panelists To Be Announced

12:00 Noon – 1:00 pm
Lunch
New Chairpersons’ Seminar Participants

Sunday, February 4

7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration

1:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Afternoon workshops for all attendees

1:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Survey Project on Accounting Education
Speakers:
W. Steve Albrecht, Brigham Young University
Robert J. Sack, Darden Graduate School, University of Virginia

3:00 pm – 3:50 pm
Technological Innovations
Speaker: Liv Watson, BDO Seidman
PowerPoint Slide Presentation (2,026k)

4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Update on AICPA Developments
Speaker: Kathy G. Eddy, AICPA Chair

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Reception
Welcome reception for all attendees

Monday, February 5

6:30 am – 8:00 am
Breakfast on your own

7:00 am
Registration

8:15 am – 8:30 am
Welcome and Introductions
James A. Heintz, APLG President

8:30 am – 11:45 am
Learning Styles
Speakers: Mary Jo Clark and Pat Heiny, Contemporary Consulting, Inc., Richmond, IN

11:45 am – 12:55 pm
Lunch

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Business Meeting and Awards Presentation
James A. Heintz, APLG President

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Break

1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS

• e-Commerce
  Speaker: Robert Johnson, Arthur Andersen, Atlanta
  PowerPoint Slide Presentation (429k)
• Benchmarking Corporate Accounting Staff Skills and Competencies: A Corporate University Perspective
  Speaker: Jonathan B. Schiff, Fairleigh Dickinson University
• How to Have a Life and Run an Accounting Program
  Speakers: Thomas P. Howard, The University of Alabama
  Andrew H. Barnett, San Diego State University
  Karen V. Pincus, University of Arkansas

2:45 pm – 2:55 pm
Break

2:55 pm – 3:55 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS

• e-Commerce
  Speaker: Robert Johnson, Arthur Andersen, Atlanta
  PowerPoint Slide Presentation (429k)
• Current Developments in Distance Learning
  Speaker: Robert E. Jensen, Trinity University
• Benchmarking Corporate Accounting Staff Skills and Competencies: A Corporate University Perspective
  Speaker: Jonathan B. Schiff, Fairleigh Dickinson University

3:55 pm – 4:05 pm
Break

4:05 pm – 5:00 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS

• Advisory Councils and Alumni Involvement
  Speakers: Stephen T. Limberg, The University of Texas at Austin
  Paul Munter, University of Miami
• Current Developments in Distance Learning
  Speaker: Robert E. Jensen, Trinity University
• Using the Introductory Course to Market Accounting and Recruit Students
  Speakers: Lamont F. (Doc) Steedle, Towson University
  Jayne D. Maas, Towson University
  Norman R. Nemrow, Brigham Young University

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Reception
Dinner on your own

Tuesday, February 6

6:30 am – 8:00 am
Breakfast on your own

8:30 am – 9:30 am
Fund-Raising, 2001
Speaker: Don Gray, University of Wisconsin Foundation
PowerPoint Slide Presentation (4,444k)

9:30 am – 10:15 am
Fund-Raising for an Accounting Program
Speakers: Jamie Pratt, Indiana University Bloomington
James J. Benjamin, Texas A&M University

10:15 am – 10:30 am
Break

10:30 am – Noon
Roundtable on the AAA: What Should the Organization be Doing? the APLG?
Facilitator: Don W. Finn, Louisiana State University

Noon
Adjournment
James A. Heintz, APLG President