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5. Participants: Address the following in regards to participants:Students: Describe any changes in students (enrollments trends, diversity, affect of changesin admission criteria, etc.) and/or support services (advising, career services, other studentdevelopment initiatives, etc.) since the last review.Undergraduate EnrollmentUndergraduate enrollment in accounting classes at all levels has increased since the 2006-2007academic year when the last Five Year Maintenance Report was completed. At the undergraduate levelthe enrollment has grown at a steady rate from 417 in Fall 2006 to 559 in Fall 2011. The demographicsof the undergraduate accounting majors continue to mirror that of the community and the region withapproximately 47% Hispanic, 42% Caucasian non-Hispanic, 8% African-American and the balancecomposed of others and international students. The major shift in composition of the accountingmajors is related to the evolution of UTSA from a commuter oriented campus to a residential campus.With this shift, the proportion of traditional, residential students has grown. This influx of traditionalstudents has been driven by a dramatic increase in the number of students coming to UTSA from theHouston metropolitan area. To a lesser extent, there has been growth in the proportion of studentscoming to UTSA from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and from Austin.Table 5.1Accounting Majors Fall 2006-Fall 2011Semester Fall 06 Fall 07 Fall 08 Fall 09 Fall 10 Fall 11Undergraduates 417 433 440 489 524 559Master’s 68 66 67 82 91 111PhD 12 15 13 14 14 16The Department of Accounting does not have responsibility for admissions, advising or otherstudent services. However, we have responded to these changes in our student population in twodifferent ways. First, we have established a student chapter of the Association of Black Accountants toprovide mentoring opportunities to a growing cohort of African-American students majoring inaccounting. We have also reached out to the major accounting firm offices in Houston and Dallas andseveral now recruit at UTSA. These include PWC, KPMG and Deloitte. Also, local offices of firms such asE&Y are referring UTSA to offices in Houston, Dallas and as far away as Chicago.As was the case in 2006-2007, a substantial number, approaching 50%, of our upper-divisionaccounting majors take all or part of their lower-division coursework at junior colleges, especially thoseassociated with the Alamo Community College District (Alamo Colleges). For a number of years we havenoted a radical difference in the quality of the preparation of many of these students when compared toour own students. We initiated the PACE examination in 2006 as a tool for dealing with this disparity inpreparation and the associated negative impact it has on our Intermediate Accounting classes. Since itsinception, over 90% of the students taking principles classes at UTSA pass the PACE while less than 75%23
of those transferring from junior colleges do. In the 2008-2010 catalog, passage of the PACEexamination became a prerequisite for enrollment in Intermediate I accounting.We have responded in two ways to the issues of junior college transfers. First, we started in theSpring of 2010 to invite the junior college instructors from the Alamo Colleges to nominate top studentsto our Accounting Stars Luncheon which is a motivation and networking event for sophomore studentscontemplating majoring in accounting. This has proven to be highly popular. In the Fall of 2009 wesponsored a meeting of accounting instructors from the Alamo Colleges to discuss the expectations wehave for their students and to advise them of the rates of success of their students on the PACEexamination. We anticipate continuing this collaboration on a regular basis.Undergraduate ServicesThe Center for Student Professional Development (CSPD) provides undergraduate studentacademic advising and career preparation programs and services for all business students includingaccounting majors. The Department of Accounting works closely with the CSPD to facilitate internshipopportunities and career services. Of particular note is an annual event held each year called “Meet theFirms,” where employers interested in hiring accounting students and graduates for either internships orpermanent positions meet with students in a career fair setting. This event is held early in the fallsemester and is the traditional starting point for the recruiting season at UTSA. We have seen a smalldecline in the number of participants because we have raised the fee substantially in the last two years.However, this event has become a major source of recruitment for internship students. This reflects achanging internship schedule that has spread across all of the large public accounting firms.Table 5.2Meet the Firms ParticipationYear 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010Firms 28 33 42 29 27Graduate EnrollmentsThe most dramatic change in enrollment in the Department of Accounting has been in theMaster of Accountancy (MACY) program. The MACY enrollment has grown from 68 in Fall 2006 to 112in Fall 2011. This enrollment growth has been fueled in large measure by a growth in full-time students.The percentage of students who are full time has reached more than 50% in what was once an entirelycommuter program for night students. The demographics of the MACY students are somewhatdifferent from those of the undergraduate students. Only about 34% of the MACY students are Hispanicversus 47% at the undergraduate level. However, the percentage of Hispanic students enrolled in theMACY has increased from only 16% in the Fall 2007 semester to 34% in the Fall of 2011. This dramaticincrease is due to the increased emphasis by the faculty on encouraging undergraduate students topursue the MACY degree as well as the availability of scholarships through such programs as the E&YOpportunity Scholarship. There is a significantly larger percentage of international students in the MACY24
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