Patricia Mounce, associate professor of Accounting, Donna Smith, assistant professor of Accounting, and Keith Atkinson, provost and professor of Accounting, recently received the Best Paper Award at the Academic Business World Conference in Nashville, Tenn. The paper, “Assurance of Learning: A Theoretical Approach to Balanced Scorecarding,” has been accepted for publication in publication in a forthcoming edition of The Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education.
Tim Bisping, assistant professor of economics in the College of Business, had an article accepted for publication in a future issue of Advances in Accounting. The paper ?A Further Inquiry into the Scholarly Productivity of Academic Accountants: Twenty Years of Evidence from the Classes of 1980-82? was co-authored with Dr. Ted D. Englebrecht of Louisana Tech University, Dr. Mary M. Anderson of the University of Southern Mississippi, and Dr. James R. Hasselback of Florida State University.
Joan Simon from the Department of Psychology & Counseling made three professional presentations this summer: ?Using a response to intervention (RTI) approach? Tier One: Universal screenings, frameworks, and benchmarks? to the Arkansas School Psychology Association summer conference; ?School based mental health in Clinton: Are we seeing progress?? to the Arkansas Mental Health in Education Association; and ?Teaming within a Response to Intervention (RTI) model? to the Russellville School District.