I am pleased to send you my greetings as you read this outstanding issue of the Department of Accountancy’s Alumni Magazine. The department is beginning the academic year from a position of strength, as you will read in these pages. The faculty has responded positively to the challenges of transition in department leadership and faculty retirements. Professor Kate Campbell is serving a three-year term as department chair. She is in tune with the future of the accounting field and is making sure that our courses, curriculum, and student engagement in activities outside of the classroom continue to prepare University of North Dakota students for the challenges they will face in their lives and careers. We appreciate all that our alumni do to invest in this process. We also have responded to faculty retirements by hiring three outstanding tenure-track faculty with excellent academic credentials as well as strong professional work experience. (They are introduced in this issue.) Faculty who are not on the tenure track now have the opportunity within the college to be recognized as “clinical” faculty and to be promoted based on their teaching skills. This allows us to strike the balance between teaching and research that is important to UND’s status as the state’s flagship university.
University of North Dakota’s 12th president. He has already gotten to know a number of accounting faculty as well as many of our engaged alumni as he has been out in the community on his listening tour. He understands the marketability of an accounting degree. His daughter Emily earned her accounting degree, is a CPA, and was named a manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He has a nephew working for PwC in New York, a niece working for Deloitte in Washington, and a nephew working for an accounting firm in Alexandria, Minn. I appreciate all that you do for the department, our college, and the University. Please continue to visit us, mentor students, speak in classes, recruit our students for internships and jobs, and stay engaged. Opportunities abound to support our students and our work financially: through the North Dakota state challenge grant program, responding to a challenge grant to fund a faculty professorship to honor our recent retirees, and considering a gift to support the new and/or renovated facilities we need to educate future business professionals. If you have any questions about these opportunities, please feel free to contact me (margaret.williams@ UND.edu; 701.777.2135) and let me know how I may be of service. I hope to see you at one of our exciting Homecoming events! Warm regards,
There is also a new accountant on campus: President Mark Kennedy joined us on July 1 as the
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