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4. Intellectual Contributions: Provide Table 31-1 in an appendix. Table 31-2 is optional, butmay also be included. Briefly describe the value of the unit’s intellectual contributions andhow the “substantial cross-section of faculty” is achieved.Tables 31-1 and 31-2 are provided in the Appendix.Research is addressed in the Department of Accounting Mission Statement in the followingsection:The research mission of the Department of Accounting is to create accountingknowledge that is relevant to theory, practice, and education, and to disseminate thisresearch to the broadest possible audience through publication in high-quality researchjournals. Research published in applied and specialized research journals and highqualitypractitioner journals also contribute to the department’s mission to createaccounting knowledge.The stated objective of this mission statement is to focus on publications in high-qualityjournals. As a PhD granting institution, a significant portion of our intellectual contributions must bedirected toward discipline-based research that focuses on theory and the empirical testing of theory. Aspart of our strategy to maximize the production of research given a limited set of resources, theaccounting faculty has adopted a position that we will primarily support archival-based research in thearea of capital markets research. The majority of the faculty, and all of the faculty members who teachin the PhD program, research and publish in these focused areas. Because Department of Accountingfaculty members are heavily involved in the Business of Health MBA concentration at UTSA, we alsohave a large number of papers published in the healthcare/nonprofit area. Most of these papers alsouse some form of archival-based research.The College of Business and the Department of Accounting require three publications in peerreviewedjournals every five years for a faculty member to be classified as academically qualified underAACSB standards. All peer-reviewed publications are evaluated based on a discipline-based journal listthat is externally validated by research papers on journal quality. Based on the College of Businessfaculty workload policy, differential quality standards exist depending on the workload track a personhas chosen. Workload tracks are established based on teaching assignments so faculty teaching in thePhD program are expected to publish more frequently in the higher-quality journals than facultyteaching only at the master’s or undergraduate level. The text of the policy is provided below.• Faculty must have at least three PRJ articles over the past five years in order to beclassified as AQ for teaching in undergraduate programs, or master’s leveling courses.o To qualify to teach at the master’s level, faculty should have one or moreadditional intellectual contributions [from the approved COB list].o To qualify to teach at the doctoral level, faculty must have published at least twodiscipline-based PRJ articles in ranked journals, plus an additional article,according to the approved College of Business journal list, over the past 5 years.From AQ Polices 10-22-2009There are currently 12 tenured and three tenure-track faculty members in the Department ofAccounting. One other faculty member who is tenured has begun phased retirement. Of the 15tenured and tenure-track faculty, 11 are academically qualified under the standards described above.Of the four who are not academically qualified under these AQ standards, one is qualified under the18