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3. Journal ListThe faculty evaluation system requires that we have in place a departmental journal list that canbe used to evaluate the quality of faculty publications. The College of Business has established acollege-wide procedure for the development of departmental journal lists to ensure external validity ofthose lists. The PRT noted that our journal list that was in place in 2007 had significant weaknesses. Afaculty committee has developed a completely revamped journal list, attempting to address the specificcriticisms of the PRT from the last visit. It has been adopted and is in place as of the beginning of thesecond semester of the 2011-2012 academic year.4. Faculty and PhD Student FellowshipsAlthough not normally within the set of items that are used to measure the quality of aprogram, one important measure of what others think of your faculty and students is the opportunitiesthey have to participate in external fellowship opportunities. During the evaluation period, Dr. CherylLinthicum spent two academic years as a Securities and Exchange Commission Faculty Fellow. Beingselected for the SEC Faculty Fellow position is a major honor. Additionally, it brings extensive firsthandknowledge about the accounting regulatory process to the students and colleagues of the facultymember chosen. Dr. Linthicum was chosen to work on the SEC’s IFRS project and has becomeinternationally recognized as an expert on the intersection of US GAAP and IFRS. However, her work onthe project was so valuable that the SEC requested that she return for a second fellowship year, analmost unheard of request.One of our PhD students, Mr. Henri Akono, was chosen as the first-ever Public CompanyAccounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) graduate student internship. One of our PhD graduates, Dr. BrianDaugherty, has been named a PCAOB Faculty Fellow. Mr. Akono spent one academic year working onresearch projects for the PCAOB and was able to bring back to the department significant insights intothe workings of this important regulatory agency. Another of our PhD students, Mr. Benedikt Quosigk,was able to spend a summer as a research fellow at HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management inLeipzig, Germany. In this position he was able to engage in joint research with German colleagues andintroduce our programs to a major German research university.While all of these programs require significant sacrifice in the short run on the part of thedepartment we believe that supporting this kind of external engagement will yield long run benefits toboth the participants and the department.Innovative or Exemplary Practices1. PACE-- Principles of Accounting Competency ExaminationFor the past six years the Department of Accounting, under the guidance of Dr. Elaine Sanders,has been developing, refining and implementing the PACE examination as a criteria for entry intoIntermediate Accounting I. This examination is designed to weed out those students whose preparationin Accounting Principles is so weak that they are not likely to succeed in Intermediate Accounting. Thisis a particularly difficult problem for UTSA because nearly 50% of all students applying to enterIntermediate Accounting have taken their Principles courses at some other institution, most often ajunior college. Lacking sufficient preparation, these students denigrate the quality of the Intermediateclasses they are in as well as regularly fail in inordinately large numbers.47
The PACE examination has been the model for other departments in the college as well as for severalother programs at universities around the country. We believe it has led to a significant improvement inthe quality of the students in our Intermediate Accounting classes as well as our other upper-divisioncourses.2. Accounting Practicum:The Accounting Practicum, as it has been developed by Dr. Gary Bridges, is a major servicelearning effort as well as a significant element of our community outreach. Recognizing that there was aneed for increased opportunities for start-up small businesses to improve their level of accountingknowledge as well as a need for our students who did not have an opportunity to do an formalinternship in our program, Dr. Bridges worked with the UTSA Small Business Development Center to setup a program that allows senior accounting students to have a hands-on accounting experience workingwith the SBDC clients. Students act as consultants and have to document their interaction with clientsthroughout a semester project. Dr. Bridges has made a number of presentations at academic andprofessional meetings on this course. He has been approached by a number of other communityorganizations requesting that the program be expanded so they can be included. Since the program’simplementation in 2007, the students have completed 10,000 hours of service to this program.3. Doctoral Teaching Seminar:Although not solely a Department of Accounting project but one sponsored by the College ofBusiness, this program should be recognized as a major contribution. Most PhD students are completelyunprepared to enter the classroom. This is particularly true of international students. In this class afaculty member from the college who is widely honored for his teaching leads the students through allareas of class preparation and classroom management. This program results in a significant increase inthe level of confidence of the students as they enter their first teaching assignments in the second yearin the program.48
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