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Columns::October 8, 2001
Digest
Accounting school ranked in top 20
The Tull School of Accounting moved into the top 15 graduate programs ranked by CPA Personnel Report’s 20th annual Survey of Accounting Professors. The school’s move from 16th to 13th is up three places from last year’s survey.
Among the top undergraduate programs in accounting, the Tull School was ranked 16th, same as last year.
The publication noted that graduate programs are becoming “increasingly important” to both accounting recruiters and academicians as more states, including Georgia, adopt rules requiring students to complete 150 semester hours before taking the certified public accountant exam.
The University of Texas, the University of Illinois and Brigham Young University were ranked first through third in both surveys. The only other SEC school ranked in both polls was the University of Florida.
“This ranking is based on the opinions of accounting faculty members-our peer group,” says Silvia Madeo, director of the Tull School. “And I don’t know of any other ranking that focuses exclusively on the field of accounting.”
UGA, state educators share ideas
Faculty members and students from the College of Education and educators from more than 100 Georgia schools will share ideas about their work in an Oct. 21-23 conference in Savannah.
The League of Professional Schools, a network of more than 100 schools in Georgia that practice school renewal through democratic education, has hosted an annual fall conference for its member schools since 1989. The organization, based in UGA’s College of Education, was founded in 1984 by UGA education professor emeritus Carl Glickman.
This year the conference has been opened to educators at all Georgia elementary and middle schools. The conference, to be held at the Savannah Riverfront Marriott, will feature more than 50 breakout sessions by Georgia teachers, administrators and College of Education faculty and students.
Keynote speaker is Richard Stiggins, founder and president of the Assessment Training Institute, Inc., in Portland, Ore., a service agency devoted to supporting teachers with the daily challenges of classroom assessment. Elizabeth Pate (College of Education faculty member in middle school education and an expert on linking students’ academic learning to real life issues in the community) and Glickman, also chair of the Program for School Improvement, will speak as well.
The conference registration fee is $80 per person for League schools and $200 per person for non-League schools. For more on the conference and the Georgia League of Professional Schools, visit www.coe.uga.edu/lps or contact League director Lew Allen at lewallen@arches.uga.edu or at 542-2523.
Student named to Good Works team
Junior offensive tackle Jon Stinchcomb is one of 11 Division I-A players from throughout the country named to the 2001 American Football Coaches Association Good Works Team.
The team recognizes college football players for their commitment to community service. Since the Good Works Team’s first selection in 1992, UGA and the University of Nebraska have each had seven players named to the team-more than any other schools in the nation.
“It says a lot about the character of these young men that they can find the time to devote themselves to the community,” says Grant Teaff, AFCA executive director. “It is our pleasure to honor these student-athletes for all they have done.”
Stinchcomb has been active in the Barrow Elementary School Reading Program, Athens-Clarke County Summer Youth Program, St. Mary’s Hospital Visitation Program, the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia, and the Mentor Program. He also has been a volunteer with Special Olympics.
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