2021-2022 Annual Meeting Committee

Charge

• While a myriad of events and activities occur during the meeting, important communications of the message comes from the plenary and lunch speakers and from broadly focused At-Large Panel sessions.
• Crafting an engaging, interesting, challenging, and fascinating story for the Annual Meeting is the opportunity of the Annual Meeting Committee.

Members

• Board of Directors Team
• Management Team
• Chief Executive Officer (Yvonne Hinson)
• Senior Director, Meetings and Programs (Erlinda Jones)
• Education Chair/s
• Section-Sponsored Concurrent Sessions Team
• Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA) Co-Chairs
• Ethics Research Symposium Co-Chairs & Ethics Workshop Chair
• Faculty-Student Collaborations in Accounting (FASTCA) Chair

Member Roles

Management Team

• President
  • Chooses President Scholar(s)
  • As Chair of Management Team, leads discussion of strategy for Annual Meeting Program
• Works with the President to achieve the vision for that year’s meeting
• Identifies speakers for three morning plenaries
  • Speakers may include a range of session types including: individual keynotes, “Ted-talk” style presentations, interview sessions, etc.
• Identifies a Tuesday lunch speaker – keeping in mind the special characteristics of lunch talks
• Plans up to three follow-up Panel sessions to continue or amplify topics begun in the three morning plenaries, as appropriate
• Plans additional At-Large panel topics
   

Chief Executive Officer

• Coordinates overall meeting
• Orients/advises/informs committee members and planning process

AAA Senior Director, Meetings and Programs

• Professional Staff member responsible for overall operational implementation of the Annual Meeting
• Coordinator of all Professional Staff involvement
  • Professional Staff Liaisons of the Program Events are responsible for identifying the incoming Chair/Co-Chairs
• Develops and approves Call for Submission
• Invites speakers for three morning plenaries

Section-Sponsored Concurrent Sessions Team

• Review submissions for Section-sponsored panels and papers and identify proposals for presentation
• Work with the Member Event Services Team to communicate deadlines and reminders to volunteers and presenters
• Professional Staff Liaison: Suzanne Mullinnix; Suzanne@aaahq.org

Program Events

Education Chair(s)

• Co-Chair: Melissa Larson, Brigham Young University, melissa_larson@byu.edu
• Co-Chair: Rose Layton, University of Southern California, rlayton@marshall.usc.edu
• Co-Chair: Nick McGuigan, Monash University, nicholas.mcguigan@monash.edu
• Co-Chairs spend approximately 10 hours each year per year for a 3-year term
• Co-Chairs are representatives from CTLA and the TLC Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee

Duties:

• Review submissions for Pre-Conference Workshops and identify proposals acceptable for presentation
• Identify and organize At-Large Education Panels
• Review submissions to Effective Learning Strategies, Emerging and Innovative Research sessions, and identify proposals for presentation
• Professional Staff Liaison:Karen Osterheld, karen.osterheld@aaahq.org

Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA) Co-Chairs

• Co-Chair: Jill Mitchell, Northern Virginia Community College, jmitchell@nvcc.edu
• Co-Chair: Dick Walstra, Dominican University, rwalstra@dom.edu
• Review the Call for Proposals, presentation emails and related documents for the upcoming year and make any changes necessary
• Identify and recommend keynote and lunch speakers
• Assign reviewers to submissions
• Review reviewer comments to identify proposals for presentation
• Create a balanced program from the list of accepted proposals
• Identify teaching sessions held at the annual meeting for the CTLA Insider’s Guide
• Professional Staff Liaison: Stephanie Glaser, stephanie@aaahq.org

Ethics Research Symposium Co-Chairs

• Ethics Research Symposium Co-Chair: Lisa R. Baudot, University of Central Florida, lisa.baudot@ucf.edu
• Ethics Research Symposium Co-Chair:  Dana M. Wallace, University of Central Florida, dana.wallace@ucf.edu
• Review the Call for Papers for the upcoming year and make any changes necessary
• Identify and confirm keynote speaker
• Contact Journal Editors to request if they will allow the use of their reviewers and consider accepted papers as submissions to their journals
• Assign reviewers to submissions
• Review reviewer comments to identify papers for presentation
• Create a balanced program from the list of accepted proposals
• Professional Staff Liaison: Stephanie Glaser, stephanie@aaahq.org

Faculty-Student Collaborations in Accounting (FASTCA) Chair

• Co-Chair: Marsha Huber, Institute of Managment Accountants, hubercpa@hotmail.com
• Co-Chair: Chenchen Huang, Carlow University, chuang@carlow.edu
• Co-Chairs spend approx. 240-300 hours (total) between May – August 
• Reviews the Call for Papers for the upcoming year and makes any changes necessary
• Reviews submission report
• Determines and confirms Program Committee
• Assigns reviewers to submissions
• Reviews reviewer comments and recommendations to identify papers for presentation
• Provides accept/reject report to Professional Staff Liaison
• Creates a balanced program from the list of accepted proposals
• Builds program in pdf format
• Participates in workshop at Annual Meeting
• Professional Staff Liaison: Jean Thompson, jean.thompson@aaahq.org

Global Emerging Scholars Research Workshop Faculty Chairs
The Global Emerging Scholars Research Workshop will be held at the AAA Annual Meeting. Up to 16 proposals will be selected for presentation at the Workshop. At the Workshop, each scholar will present the proposal, followed by discussion by a senior researcher as mentor who will also provide constructive feedback. There will also be further discussion of the proposal by the presenter, other senior scholars as mentors, and the other early career researchers.

• Chair: Wayne Landsman, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, wayne_landsman@unc.edu
• Chair-Elect: Christopher Williams, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, williacd@umich.edu
• Review the Call for Papers for the upcoming year and make any changes necessary
• Review submissions and identify proposals acceptable for presentation
• Divide the submissions into 2 tracks and identify which 2 faculty members will be responsible for each track
• Reach out to faculty to fill any of the open faculty spots for the workshop
• Work with AAA Professional Staff and answer any questions throughout the process
• Professional Staff Liaison: Kelli Rickrode, kelli.rickrode@aaahq.org