The Steering Committee consists of the Region President, the Program Chair and 10 other individuals from the region.  The charge of the steering committee is to manage the Region and provides advice and guidance to the Program Chair in the conduct of the annual Regional Meeting. The Committee meets three times annually: at the National Meeting in August, in New York City in mid-January, and at the Regional Meeting in April.

Members serve three-year terms, and are selected to provide geographic and type-of-school balance. New members are selected each January, to take office following the Regional Meeting in April. Suggestions for membership should be forwarded to the Regional President, or to any member of the Steering Committee.

Steering Committee Members, 2005-2006

President 
Victoria Shoaf (2007)
St. John's University
Department of Accounting
8000 Utopia Parkway
New York, NY 10012-1118
Phone: (718) 990-6461 x 7329
Fax: (718) 990-1868
Email: shoafv@stjohns.edu 

Program Chair
Afshad Irani (2008)
University of New Hampshire
Department of Accounting
Whittemore School of Business
15 College Rd.
Durham, NH 03824-3593
Phone: (603) 862-3342
Fax: (603) 862-4468
Email: afshad.irani@unh.edu
 

Steering Committee

Robert Walsh (2006)
Marist College
School of Management
364 Dyson Center
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Phone: (845) 575-3000 X 2906 
Fax: (845)575-3640
Robert.Walsh@Marist.edu 

Jeffrey Shields (2006)
University of Southern Maine
School of Business
96 Falmouth Street
Portland, ME 04104
Phone: (207) 780-4020
Fax: (207) 780-4662
Email: jshields@usm.maine.edu 

Patricia M. Poli (2006)
School of Business
Accounting Faculty
Fairfield University
North Benson Road
Fairfield, Connecticut 06430-7524
Phone: (203) 254-4000 ext. 2882
Fax: (203) 254-4105
Email: PPoli@mail.fairfield.edu

Joan Hollister (2006)
Marist College
School of Management
364 Dyson Center
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Phone: (845) 575-3000  
Fax: (845)575-3640
Email: Joan.Hollister@Marist.edu

Scott Colvin (2007)
Naugatuck Valley Community College
Department of Accounting
750 Chase Parkway
Waterbury, CT 06708
Phone: (203) 575-8149
Email: scolvin@nvcc.commnet.edu

Ariel Markelevich (2007)
Long Island University - C.W. Post
School of Professional Accountancy
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville, NY 11548-0570
Phone: (516) 299-2085
Fax: (516) 299-2297
Email: ariel.markelevich@liu.edu

Emily Xu (2007)
University of New Hampshire
Department of Accounting
Whittemore School of Business
15 College Rd.
Durham, NH 03824-3593
Phone: (603) 862-
Fax: (603) 862-4468
Email:

James Bannister (2008)
University of Hartford
Department of Accounting and Taxation
Barney School of Business
West Hartford, CT 06117-1599
Phone: (860) 768-5301
Fax (860) 768-4398
Email: bannister@hartford.edu

Henry Schwarzbach (2008)
Department of Accounting
College of Business Administration
University of Rhode Island
338 Ballentine Hall
Kingston, RI 02881-0802
Phone: (401) 874-4327
Fax: (401) 874-4312
Email: henrys@uri.edu

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