Meetings

Meetings

Our 2025 Joint Meeting of the Engagement, Access, and Community Section and the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section
October 24-25, 2025
Milwaukee, WI

We’re excited to welcome you to the EAC and TLC Joint Meeting of the American Accounting Association in Milwaukee, WI, on October 24–25, 2025! Join us for a dynamic program in an affordable, vibrant city offering convenient access to a wide range of experiences designed to enrich your time at the meeting.

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Thank you to our Sponsor, KPMG, for their generous support of our meeting!

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About
About
Who We Are

Community

To build a strong, supportive network of accounting doctoral students, educators, and practitioners.

Engaged Research

To encourage and advance research that recognizes the contributions of a broad community, with results that contributes to or amplify thought leadership in accounting education, research, and practice.

Faculty Development

To enhance and support opportunities that empower faculty members, doctoral students, and early-career scholars to thrive in accounting education education, research, and practice.

Partnerships

To establish collaborative relationships across stakeholder groups including doctoral students, faculty, standard-setters, and practitioners, to broaden participation, exchange knowledge, and address emerging challenges in the field.

Infrastructure

To deliver high quality, cost-effective support for Section programs, events, and member services.

Governance

Officers and Committees

Volunteer Opportunities

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News

News

Engagement, Access, and Community Section Newsletter

Summer 2024 Newsletter

In This Edition: Letter from the President | Section Breakfast at AAA | Awards | Publication | Editorial Roles | Leadership Roles | Grant Recipients | Advising Roles | Promotions & Tenure | Members in the Media | and much more!

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Join the Engagement, Access, and Community Section

The Engagement, Access, and Community Section is to be recognized as a Section where a broad range of experiences, ideas, insights, and voices contribute to meaningful progress in accounting education, research, and practice. To drive and support a resilient academic and professional environment with strong connections, open access to opportunities, and active participation.

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Take advantage of all the benefits that AAA membership has to offer:

Access to the Digital Library where all AAA publications are searchable and downloadable.

Reduced member pricing for article submission fees to select AAA journals.

Enhance your career with our online Career Center. Members can post one resume for free.

Receive registration discounts on many of our meetings and low cost Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.

The opportunity to volunteer for Association-wide committees, serve in Section and Region leadership roles, and network and connect with colleagues at Association meetings.

Join the AAA

To join the EAC Section, you must be a current member of the American Accounting Association.

Become an AAA and EAC member or renew your membership: Click Here

Add EAC membership to your current AAA membership:

Membership Change form - Complete this form.

Email completed form to ar@aaahq.org.

If you have questions about membership click here: info@aaahq.org and your email will go directly to the AAA Member Services.
Awards

Awards

Awards

2024 Recipients: Cristina T. Alberti, Babson College and Landi Morris, Northern Arizona University for
Online Toxic Communication about the Accounting Academic Job Market, Accounting Horizons, March 2024

Engagement, Access, and Community Innovation in Research Award

The Section recognizes the importance of promoting engagement, access, and community innovation in the Academy, the accounting profession, and in business. The purpose of the Engagement, Access, and Community Innovation in Research Award is to recognize and reward faculty members who conduct research that advances knowledge and practices in these areas. The winner will be honored with a plaque and a monetary award.

To be eligible for the award, the research must have been conducted within the past five years and must demonstrate new and spirited thinking.

Individual faculty members or a team of faculty are eligible. These parties can nominate themselves or others. Recipients do not have to be members of the Section to receive the plaque but must be members to receive the monetary award.

Nomination Procedures: To submit a nomination, email a pdf file of the nominated paper and an accompanying nomination letter to the Chair of the Awards Committee. Also include a contact person and address to whom the Award Committee can send requests for additional information. Papers not selected for the award may be re-submitted for nomination in subsequent years, subject to the five-year limitation.

The Award will be presented during the Engagement, Access, and Community Section Business Meeting and Lunch at the AAA Annual Meeting in August.

Engagement, Access, and Community Section Awards Chairperson: Nelson Alino at nualino@quinnipiac.edu.

Award Details

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Award Details
Resources

Resources

Resources

Scholarships & Grants

For PhD Students

Research Support Opportunitites

Pay It Forward Campaign

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Join the Engagement, Access, and Community Section and the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section

The mission of the Engagement, Access, and Community Section and the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section of the American Accounting Association is To be the primary forum for the enhancement and support of diversity in accounting education, research, and practice.

The members of the Engagement, Access, and Community Section and the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section are committed to:

Valuing diversity; respect for others
Service to members and others
Sense of community
Innovation; willingness to change
High ethical values and behavior
Open communications
Fairness

Thank you for deciding to join the Engagement, Access, and Community Section and the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section. To join the EAC Section, you must be a current member of the American Accounting Association.

Become an AAA and EAC member or renew your membership: Click Here

Add EAC membership to your current AAA membership:

Download and complete the the appropriate Tier form. Not sure what Tier Click Here
Tier 1 Add-On form

Tier 2 Add-On form

Tier 3 Add-On form .
Email completed form to ar@aaahq.org, or fax to 941-923-4093, or mail to American Accounting Association, 11161 E. State Rd 70 Suite 110-519 Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202.

If you have questions about membership click here: info@aaahq.org and your email will go directly to the AAA Member Services.