Department of Accounting SWOT Analysis - College of Business ...

addition, the College and University have awarded newly hired faculty members four summer
grants of $5,000 each.
2. While research productivity in the aggregate increased, it was concentrated in two
individuals. A broader cross-section of the faculty should be involved regularly in
scholarship. If one or both productive faculty should leave, the situation would
dramatically change.
A broader cross section of the faculty is regularly involved in scholarship. Though one faculty
member, Dr. Ted Englebrecht, who was responsible for much of the Department’s scholarship,
left since the interim report, the Department’s research output was maintained because other
faculty increased their scholarship.
For the two year period, 2001-2002, faculty scholarship was distributed in the following manner:
Tenured Faculty
Refereed
Publications
National
Proceedings
Regional
Proceedings
Abdel Agami 4 2 8
Doug Ziegenfuss 6 1 4
Otto Martinson 6 0 2
Tim Mckee 2 0 2
Laurie Henry 1 1 2
Untenured Faculty:
Stephen Gara, 1 st yr. 2 0 2
Yin Xu, 2 nd yr. 0 1 2
Robert Pinsker, 1 st yr. 1 0 2
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Department Totals: 22 5 24
Some additional points need to be made concerning the broadening of the research output among
faculty members:
• Each untenured faculty member came from a sound research orientated Ph.D. program
(University of Memphis, University of South Carolina, and University of Southern
Florida).
• The newly hired faculty’s scholarship will benefit from improvements in the College
research infrastructure. For example, all three untenured faculty members are given a
reduced teaching load for their first two years and a $5,000 summer grant for one summer
after their first full year of teaching.
• Each untenured faculty member is supplied with graduate assistant resources and given
reduced responsibility for service.
• Two of the three untenured faculty members have won university summer grants of
$5,000.