Purpose

The Accounting Accreditation Committee (AAC) oversees initial accreditation and continuous improvement review processes to ensure consistency of accreditation standards application and equity of recommendations across teams and across programs reviewed.

Structure

The AAC is composed of a minimum of 10 members and a maximum of 20 members, plus an AAC chair and AAC vice chair appointed by the vice chair-chair elect (who shall preside as board chair during the year for which the appointments are made).

The AAC chair is normally a dean (or chief officer) or accounting school director or unit head with a background in accounting, or a current or previous accounting program administrator from an organization with AACSB accounting accreditation. Normally, AAC members are representatives of organizations with accounting accreditation. The majority are current or previous administrators of accounting programs; other members include deans (or chief officers) and representatives of business organizations. Normally, AAC members serve staggered three-year terms, up to a maximum of two consecutive terms. Normally, the AAC chair serves two consecutive one-year terms.

Chair

Brian McGuire, University of Southern Indiana

Vice Chair

Mark Holtzman, Seton Hall University

Members

Jeffrey Archambault, Marshall University
Michael E. Bitter, Stetson University
Jacqueline Burke, Hofstra University
Ted Christensen, The University of Georgia
Jim Greenspan, Wright State University
Jessica Lai, Victoria University of Wellington
George Plesko, University of Connecticut
Ananth Seethataman, University of North Texas
Mary Stone, The University of Alabama
Mayada Youssef, United Arab Emirates University

Staff Liaison

Lauren Maradei ([email protected])