Call for Submissions
2008 AAA Innovation in Accounting Education
The American Accounting Association requests nominations for the 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 materials The winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or an institution.
Award Criteria
The primary criteria used by the Selection Committee to judge submissions include:
- innovation;
- demonstrated educational benefits; and
- adaptability by other educational institutions or to other situations
Award Process
Application materials should include an executive summary of the activity, concept, or materials. It should also include a detailed statement explaining how (1) it is innovative, (2) has demonstrated educational benefits (i.e., evidence of the value of the educational innovation), and (3) can be adapted by other educational institutions or to other situations. Adequate materials must be submitted so that the evaluation committee can make an assessment on these three dimensions. All materials must be submitted by February 1, 2008. Electronic submissions are desired but not required.
Mailing Instructions for Submissions
Please send electronic versions in MS Word or Adobe PDF files that are attached to email messages to Nancy Bagranoff at the email address nbagranoff@odu.edu. Please do not assume that your submission was received unless you receive an acknowledgement message.
If your submission is sent via email, it is not necessary to mail hard copies. If it is necessary to send hard copy, please mail nine copies of the submission to the address shown below:
Nancy A. Bagranoff, Dean
2004 Constant Hall
College of Business and Public Administration
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
Award Presentation
The winner will be announced in the Accounting Education News. The award, a plaque and $5,000 funded by the Ernst & Young Foundation, will be presented at the 2008 AAA Annual Meeting.
Although publication is not a requirement for receiving the award, 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 the paper by the editor of the journal.
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