Iowa Ledger (2022) - Tippie College of Business

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FEATURE BY • AMANDA MAY Legacy A WEIGHTY Dan Collins retires from the Tippie College of Business To illustrate Dan Collins (BBA68/PhD73) on the occasion of his retirement, we wanted it to be more than a simple photograph. We wanted his portrait to somehow communicate the breadth of his 45-year career. We wanted him rooted strongly in Iowa. We wanted viewers to know he was not just a professor, but a formidable researcher. And we wanted his dozens of Ph.D. students represented. So, we enlisted the help of artist and Iowa alumnus Lucas Underwood (BA03/MFA15) for this Herculean task. While Collins was teaching his last two semesters of classes, we were busy layering as much meaning as we could into this portrait. The longer you look, the more you’ll see! DETAILS EMBEDDED IN THE ARTWORK The gold stripes of Collins’ tie feature Marshalltown, Iowa (where he went to high school) and Iowa City. His Ph.D. students from 1982 to 2021 in golden metal leaf calligraphy on books of collaged Iowa maps spanning from Marshall County (top left) to Johnson County (bottom right). All eight editions of “Financial Reporting and Analysis,” the widely used accounting textbook Collins co-authored. 3-D bookshelves made from layered maps where Michigan State University, Northwestern, and Duke are located. (Representing his limited time away from the University of Iowa when he began his career/ was a visiting professor). A Financial Accounting Standards (FASB) textbook represents the countless hours he spent in the classroom as an accounting professor. He used to tell his students that the proper way to carry the FASB tome was under their arm with the title facing out so that everyone would know they were “elite accounting students.” The deep blue fields at the bottom corners are made of indigo-coated maps of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans representing the pull of the coasts. In the portrait, as in life, Collins remains solidly in the middle of the frame (and country). A loyal Hawkeye, through and through. Journals where Collins’ research has been published (shades of blue) and served as a referee (shades of tan leather). The University of Iowa presidential seal as a lapel pin. The 1968 and 1973 yearbooks (the years in which he got his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in accounting from the University of Iowa). DYK? The Hawkeye yearbook was produced from 1892 to 1992—except for a brief interruption in the 70s, which included 1973. So there was actually no yearbook produced the year he received his Ph.D. Collins’ jacket is made of Iowa maps. While painted a traditional “Hawkeye Black,” you can still see details of the maps underneath if you move in relation to the piece. As the light catches it at different angles, county lines appear in gold and warm hues. Composition generated from a medium-format photograph taken by Underwood, a former assistant at the famed Lasansky Gallery and Studio in Iowa City. His face was made using an ink transfer process utilizing a flipped inkjet print of his photograph, transparent matte medium, and Iowa maps. Through pressure, the ink detaches from the paper it’s printed on, adhering to the matte medium instead. A weighty legacy. The framed piece tips the scales at roughly 23 pounds. • 16 IOWA LEDGER 2022
Dan Collins By Lucas Underwood Mixed media on wood panel, 30x33 in., 2022 On view in the RSM Suite (W262) at the Pappajohn Business Building
Page 1 and 2: 2022 IOWA LEDGER UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Page 3 and 4: Iowa Ledger is an annual publicatio
Page 5 and 6: CAMPUS NEW FACULTY Learning from th
Page 7 and 8: 1 2 3 ANDREW CHRISTIANSEN (BBA01/MA
Page 9 and 10: Yet even the numbers seem inadequat
Page 11 and 12: CAMPUS RETIREMENTS Raising the Bar
Page 13 and 14: RESEARCH The Case for the Chief Acc
Page 15 and 16: The air was abuzz with anticipation
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Page 21 and 22: The evening of Dan Collins’ retir
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Page 25 and 26: Accounting Department Executive Off
Page 27 and 28: FEATURE BY • JENNIFER SETER WAGNE
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