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

Faculty Sufficiency and Faculty Intellectual Contributions and Qualifications
Faculty scholarship as measured by refereed journal articles was distributed in the
following manner during AY06 as compared to AY05:
Tenured Faculty: AY05: AY06:
Douglas Ziegenfuss 1 2
Otto Martinson 0 1
Timothy Mckee 0 0
Laurie Henry 1 0
Untenured:
Yin Xu 2 0
Robert Pinsker 2 4
Department Totals: 6 7
During AY06, the Department successfully hired two established accounting academics:
Francis Kim, from The City University of Hong Kong, and Michael Stein, from The
University of Oregon. Upon successfully hiring the two tenure track faculty, the
Department released two non-tenure track instructors. This personnel action raised the
percentage of Academically Qualified to Professionally Qualified faculty, from 6/6 to
8/4, or from 50% to 67%. Both newly hired professors bring proven records of high
quality academic research with them to the faculty.
Several faculty members attended continuing education programs put on by AACSB,
Accounting Program Leadership Group (APLG)/Federation of Schools of Accountancy
(FSA), PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Virginia Society of Certified Public
Accountants.
For the second year in a row, both the Department Chair and Graduate Program Director
attended both the AACSB Accounting Accreditation Workshop and the Joint Accounting
Program Leaders Group/ Federation of Schools of Accountancy seminar to keep up to
date on accounting accreditation.
Research productivity increased slightly from AY06. As in AY05, newly hired faculty
members are producing quality journal articles while longer serving faculty members are
maintaining their productivity at an acceptable level.
During AY07, the Department plans to increase the quality and quantity of its refereed
publications.
AY07 Plans
In summary, the Department plans on doing the following during AY07: