2024-2025 Issues in Accounting Education Steering Committee


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Charge

  • Review the Aims and Scope of Issues in Accounting Education
  • Prepare the Call for Nominations for the senior editor based on the Aims and Scope
  • Review editorial candidates and provide a slate of at least two candidates for senior editor of Issues in Accounting Education to the Research and Publications Committee
  • The Research and Publications Committee prepares a recommendation for the AAA Board of Directors to appoint an incoming senior editor for one association-wide journal (The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, or Issues in Accounting Education, depending on the year).  This recommendation is based on the slate of candidates put forth by the journal’s Steering Committee.
    • Approving the Call for Nominations for the Senior Editors put forth by the journal’s Steering Committee:
    • The Accounting Review  - Fall 2024
    • Accounting Horizons - Fall 2025
    • Issues in Accounting Education - Fall 2026
3-Year Cycle for Issues in Accounting Education Steering Committee's Journal Senior Editor Selection Process:

Year 1

(2024-2025) 

Following the selection of the journal’s senior editor, the Steering Committee will write a summary of their experiences in selecting the journal senior editor as input into the next round of the senior editor selection process.

Year 2

(2025-2026) 

Formalize the Aims and Scope for the journal and draft a Call for Submissions based on those parameters for review by the Board of Directors.

Year 3

(2026-2027)

Coordinate the Call for Nominations, review candidates for senior editor and recommend at least two candidates for consideration by the Research and Publications Committee, which will make final recommendations to the Board of Directors at their March board meeting.

 

Membership

Meetings

  • Meetings of the Committee may be scheduled at the discretion of the Chair, and can be online, as appropriate.

Responsibilities

  • Fulfill the Committee charge as above.
  • If the Chair has any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this Committee, s/he should contact the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or the Committee's Board of Directors Liaison.
  • The Chair must submit at least one report per year to the Board of Directors. This report should include accomplishments and suggested modifications and should be sent to the AAA President, the Task Force's Board of Directors Liaison, and Governance Manager, Barbara Gutierrez (barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org).
Members
Name / Affiliation Contact Term Length Term Expires

Chair
Wayne Thomas
University of Oklahoma

 

wthomas@ou.edu

 

3

 
08/2025

Joy Gray
Arizona State University

Joy.Gray@asu.edu

3

08/2025

Nick McGuigan
Monash University-Caufield
Australia

nicholas.mcguigan@monash.edu

3

08/2025

Janet Samuels
Arizona State University

janet.samuels@asu.edu

3

08/2025

Robyn Barrett
Saint Louis Community College

rbarrett@stlcc.edu

3

08/2026

Joanna Garcia
John Carroll University

jgarcia@jcu.edu

3

08/2026

Patrick Lee
The University of Texas at San Antonio

plee04@gmail.com

3

08/2026

Pamela J. Strickland
Campbell University

pstrickland19@gmail.com

3

08/2026

Diane Janvrin
Iowa State University

djanvrin@iastate.edu

3

08/2027

Stephanie Austin
Senior Director, Publications and Content Strategy
Ex-officio non-voting member

Stephanie.Austin@aaahq.org

   

Board of Directors Liaison
Jacqueline Hammersley
University of Georgia
Vice President-Research & Publications


jhammers@uga.edu


 
3


08/2027