Innovation in Accounting Education

Call for Nominations
AAA Innovation in Accounting Education Award

The Innovation in Accounting Education Award Committee is currently accepting nominations for the 2013 Innovation in Accounting Education Award.

Award Intent

The award is intended to encourage innovation and improvement in accounting education.
Further, it recognizes significant programmatic changes or a significant activity, concept, or set of educational materials.
The winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or an institution.

Award Criteria
The primary criteria used to judge nominations include:

Innovation (for purposes of this award, an educational innovation is something new or different that will spur interest in the study of accounting or that will improve the effectiveness of accounting education. The innovation aspect must be something that allows for instruction and learning to take a path different from the usual/traditional.)
Demonstrated educational benefits or value (i.e., evidence of the educational merit of the innovation); and
Adaptability by other educational institutions or to other situations (thus, the quality of a nomination is enhanced to the extent that the innovation has been adopted elsewhere)

Award Presentation

The award and $5,000, funded by the Ernst & Young Foundation, will be presented at the AAA Annual Meeting.
The winner will be announced in the Fall Accounting Education News.
The award-winning innovation will be eligible for publication in Issues in Accounting Education as a scholarly article, subject to the normal manuscript review process and acceptance of a suitable manuscript by the editor of the journal.

Instructions for Submitting Nominations

Nominations are due by January 31.
Application materials should include a 200-word summary of the activity, concept, or materials, along with a detailed statement, not to exceed six (6) pages (double-spaced), that responds to the above-listed selection criteria.
Each nomination can be accompanied by no more than five (5) attachments (tables of data/implementation results, DVDs, CDs, letters of support, results of adaptations at other institutions or settings, books, monographs, PowerPoint slides, etc.).
Normally, this award is given in recognition of a single-item initiative, which could have been developed and implemented over a several-year period. Adequate materials must be submitted so that the evaluation committee can make an assessment on the three dimensions listed above in "Award Criteria."
Submissions for this award are collected electronically in Word or PDF format and should be sent to the Chair of the Innovation in Accounting Education Award Committee, Tonya Flesher (actonya@olemiss.edu). Please do not assume that your nomination was received unless you receive an acknowledgement message from the committee Chair.