UA WALTON COLLEGE DOCTORAL STUDENT RECEIVES AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION FELLOWSHIP

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Martin Stuebs, a first-year accounting doctoral student in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, has received an American Accounting Association Fellowship for the 2001-2002 academic year.

The purpose of the fellowship is to increase the supply of qualified accounting professors in the United States and Canada. It awards $2,500 to outstanding students, based on academic merit in the first year of their doctoral program. The fellowship will assist Stuebs in his preparation for a research and teaching career at a nationally competitive college or university, a goal of the current accounting doctoral program.

Stuebs came to the U of A from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater where he received a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1997 and a master’s degree in accounting in 1998. He was attracted to the Walton College’s new creative accounting doctoral program, which allows students to work on research teams with leading scholars in the field as soon as they arrive on campus.

Carolyn M. Callahan, Doris M. Cook Chair and program director of the Walton College’s doctoral accounting program, said, "We are very pleased to have Marty in the doctoral program this year. He is an outstanding student. We are thrilled that he has received national recognition with this fellowship. In the prior year, the fellowship went to individuals at the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Iowa. We are very pleased to have the University of Arkansas represented in this cohort of schools."

She added, "Many business schools are expanding their facilities to meet the student demand for business education that has greatly increased in the last decade. Conversely there is a shortage of qualified business professors to teach these students. With this fellowship, the American Accounting Association and the Walton College are playing a role in reversing this trend."

A May 2001 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the demand for more business scholars has driven up starting salaries for new professors as well as for existing faculty.

Founded in 1916, the American Accounting Association promotes worldwide excellence in accounting education, research and practice.