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1. Situational Analysis (no more than five pages): A brief analysis that enables the PeerReview Team to understand the context within which the applicant operates. It shouldanswer the following types of questions:What historical, national, local, and other factors shape the applicant's mission andoperations?The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is a relatively new institution having beenchartered in 1969 and graduating its first class of students in 1972. In recent years it has experiencedrapid growth reaching an enrollment of over 31,000 students in Fall 2011. The Department ofAccounting was one of the original administrative units in the College of Business and was originallynamed the Division of Accounting and Information Systems. The Department of Accounting became afree standing department in the 2001-02 academic year. It was initially awarded AACSB separateaccreditation in 1997 and was reaccredited in 2007. In Fall 2011 the department had 559 studentsenrolled in the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting program, 111 students enrolledin the Master of Accountancy (MACY) program and 16 students enrolled in the PhD in BusinessAdministration program pursuing an emphasis in accounting. The department faculty is composed of 14tenured and tenure-track faculty, all of whom are terminally qualified, one terminally qualified facultymember who is on three-year year phased retirement, two full-time non-tenure-track lecturers, one ofwhom is terminally qualified and five adjunct faculty none of whom is terminally qualified.The university is located in San Antonio, Texas, the seventh largest city in the United States witha population of nearly 1.5 million. Despite its large population, San Antonio is a relatively small businesscity. Four Fortune 500 headquarters are located here. Major employers are government, healthcare,tourism, security and financial services.The population of the San Antonio region is uniquely diverse. Approximately 50% of theStandard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) population is Hispanic. Much of the region from whichUTSA draws its student population is predominantly Hispanic. While the regional population has arelatively small percentage of citizens classifying themselves as African-American, (6.2%) much of theenrollment growth at UTSA has been drawn from the Houston metropolitan area which has a muchlarger African-American population; thus, there has been a significant increase in the population ofAfrican-American students both in the university and in the accounting program. The demographics ofthe accounting majors at UTSA are approximately 47% Hispanic, 42% Non-Hispanic Caucasian, 8%African-American with the balance primarily made up of international students.Historically, San Antonio has been a city dominated by the presence of military installations andthese are still some of the largest employers. As a consequence there are many active duty and retiredmilitary personnel who take classes at UTSA. Recently, San Antonio has become a major destination forfamilies moving to the United States from Mexico. As a consequence the number of Mexican nationalswho are taking courses at UTSA is increasing.The university began as a commuter campus and as recently as 10 years ago drew the vastmajority of its students from San Antonio and the communities immediately around the city. However,the university made a conscious decision to change from a commuter to a residential campus. In that1
time the number of on-campus residents has risen from 500 to over 3,600. In addition numerous largestudent-oriented housing projects have been built around the campus.Today, UTSA is primarily a residential campus with a highly diverse student population comingfrom throughout the State of Texas and across the nation. Being located in one of the largest and mostethnically diverse cities in the country provides UTSA students with a unique educational opportunity.All of these changes are impacting the university, college and Department of Accounting as we developand enhance our mission.The College of Business (COB) is the second largest academic unit at UTSA. The COB hasestablished a reputation as a dynamic center of business education in South Texas. With 5,200undergraduate majors, 700 master’s students and nearly 100 PhD students, the COB has become thesingle largest source of business graduates in the region. The size of the COB alone is larger than almostevery other institution of higher education in the region. The COB is recognized for providingoutstanding educational opportunities for Hispanic students. Our part-time MBA program has beennationally ranked and recognized and the COB is ranked as one of the top 100 research departments inthe nation by the annual University of Texas at Dallas research productivity survey.What are the applicant's relative advantages and disadvantages in reputation, resources,sponsors, and supporters?The Department of Accounting is one of seven (soon to be eight) administrative units within theCollege of Business. As such, we benefit from the outstanding reputation of the College of Business.The COB provides the department with a wide array of support such as advising, information technologyand research funding. All university generated funding, both state and private, is channeled to thedepartment through the College of Business. We have nominal control over spending of maintenanceand operations (M&O) and travel funds, but must work within the guidelines established by the Collegeof Business. We have independent authority over self-generated scholarship and discretionary fundsand are completely responsible for curriculum, faculty deployment and course scheduling. Our level ofindependence is consistent with that of almost all accounting departments in the United States. It is amajor advantage that we have strong support with relatively few constraints imposed upon us by theCollege of Business administration.The department has, since its inception, enjoyed a reputation for the quality of its graduates. Asthe major source of accounting professionals for employers in San Antonio, the department has builtlong standing relationships with the accounting community. All of the large corporations in San Antoniohave significant contingents of UTSA accounting graduates. Several such as USAA, HEB and Valero haveover 100 UTSA graduates working in their accounting functions. As a relatively young institution,significant numbers of our graduates are only now moving into the upper levels of management in theirfirms. For example, the chief financial officers of Valero Energy and Tesoro Energy are both UTSAgraduates. James Bodenstedt, BBA ’96 founded MUY Brands, one of the largest franchisees of Pizza Hut,Long John Silvers and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in the United States. We now have graduateswho are partners in the Big 4 firms as well as many of the major CPA firms in the United States. Thematuring of our alumni and their rise in importance in their firms has been a major factor in our recentfundraising success. We continue to aggressively exploit this and see this as a major advantage for thefuture.The large percentage of our students who are of Hispanic origin continues to be a majoradvantage to the Department of Accounting. Nearly 50% of the undergraduate enrollment and over30% of the graduate enrollment in accounting at UTSA is Hispanic. Given the size of our programs andthe high percentage of Hispanic students, UTSA represents a very attractive venue for firms to recruit.2
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Health/Technology ThematicCOB Goal
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University of Texas at San Antonio
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MACY Goal 3 Graduates of the Master
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PhD-ACC Goal 2 Students will identi
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PhD-ACC Goal 3Students will acquire
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