Outstanding Accounting Educator Award
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Call for Nominations and Award Criteria
Nominations Deadline: January 31 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time
The Outstanding Accounting Educator Award Committee is currently accepting nominations for the 2025 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.
Award Intent
- The nominee should be at the point in the candidate's career that the nominee's sustained contributions have significantly impacted accounting education or accounting educators.
- To enhance inclusiveness, the committee encourages nominations of educators with sustained and substantive contributions from a wide variety of academic institutions.
- No members of the Board of Directors or nominee for office shall be eligible to receive the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award while a member of the Board of Directors or while a nominee for office.
- To be considered for the award the nominee should be a member of the American Accounting Association and either a fulltime faculty member or a recent retiree (within the past five years).
Award Selection Criteria
- Educational innovation,
- Excellence in teaching,
- Publications related to the award's intent
- Research guidance and mentorship to students (at any level - PhD, Master and Undergraduate) or colleagues
- Impactful service to the profession and/or academic community (including the candidate's department, school, or university)
- Successful nominees excel across multiple criteria
- Nomination letters should be organized by sections that correspond to the applicable above criteria. Supplemental and supporting information addressing one or more of each criterion may be included but should appear in an Appendix.
Instructions for Submitting Nominations
- Any person or group may make nominations; however, as a matter of policy, members of the Board of Directors and nominees for office will abstain from writing letters of endorsement supporting individuals for the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.
- Self-nominations are encouraged.
- Members of the committee are encouraged to solicit and submit nominations.
- Current committee members who are nominated for the award will be asked to either recuse themselves from the committee or remove their nomination from consideration.
- Beginning with the 2025 submissions, nominations may include work that was not selected for the award in a prior year, as long as the eligibility requirements continue to be met.
- Eligible nominations will not automatically roll-forward to the following year, although the award committee has the option to recommend eligible nominations be rolled forward. The nominator will be informed of the nomination status at the completion of the award cycle, and updates to the nomination letter are encouraged even for nominations that are selected to be rolled forward.
- Each nomination must include a nomination letter. Nomination letters will be accepted for two days after the submission deadline. If a nomination letter is not received, then the nomination will not be evaluated. Download the recommended Nomination Packet Template.
- The nomination packet should include the following:
- A nomination letter addressing and synthesizing the evidence supporting excellence for each of the applicable award criteria
- As stated above, nomination letters should be organized by sections that correspond to the applicable criteria.
- Supplemental and supporting information addressing one or more of each criterion may be included but should appear in an Appendix.
- Evidence supporting the impact of the candidate's contributions (evidence often includes, but is not limited to, letters from students, alumni, colleagues or professional organizations)
- Candidate's curriculum vita
- The nomination letter must include a statement indicating that the nominee is a member of the American Accounting Association and either a fulltime faculty member or a recent retiree (within the past five years).
- Please attach the nomination letter and material to an email and send to Barbara Gutierrez, Professional Staff Liaison, at awards@aaahq.org with "Outstanding Accounting Educator Award" in the subject line of your email.
- Upon receipt of your nomination you will receive an acknowledgment message from Barbara Gutierrez, Professional Staff Liaison.
- All documents submitted in support of your nomination become the property of the American Accounting Association.
- Nominations are due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on January 31.
Award Presentation
- The recipient(s) will receive an award, citation, and $5,000 at the AAA Annual Meeting. If multiple recipients, the amount is divided equally.
- An additional $5,000 will be donated by PwC US Group LLP to the AAA in the recipient's name.
- The award recipient will determine how the AAA will use the funds.
- The recipient(s) will be announced on the AAA website and in multi-topic mass emails.