The University of Guam School of Business and Public Administration (SBPA) welcomes associate professors of accounting Dr. William Morehead and Dr. Mark Morgan from Mississippi College as part of the new Senator Herminia Dierking and John Phillips Visiting Accounting Professor and Lecturer Program.<\/p>\n
The program, a collaborative, strategic partnership between SBPA, the Guam Board of Accountancy (GBOA), and the UOG Endowment Foundation, focuses on strengthening the university\u2019s accounting program through endowed chairs, which are specialized faculty positions funded by a donor.<\/p>\n
The program will fund visiting accounting faculty with specific expertise not currently available in Guam.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new program adds value to our existing accounting degree program,\u201d said SBPA Dean Dr. Annette Taijeron Santos. \u201cThe benefit is that these visiting professors will provide fresh perspectives and widen our scope of accounting through specialized courses such as fraud examination.\u201d<\/p>\n
Visiting professors<\/strong> The former National President of the Association of Government Accountants from 2009 to 2010, Morehead, whose accolades include 2012 recipient of the National Robert W. King Memorial Award\u2014the highest award presented by the Association of Government Accountants\u2014will teach the foundation course titled principles of managerial accounting.<\/p>\n Morgan\u2014whose professional background includes serving as the Senior Criminal Investigator for the Mississippi Department of Revenue for seven years\u2014has held more than a handful of academic positions and professional memberships such as the longest serving member on the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners\u2019 Higher Education Initiative Committee in Austin, Texas. He will teach a unique special studies in accounting course titled Fraud Examination.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth professors were recommended by GBOA and our accounting faculty,\u201d Santos said. \u201cThey are solid candidates for the first cycle of the program, and it will be interesting to see how their teaching styles impact our curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n Multi-year support<\/strong> \u201cThis is really the first program of its kind here at UOG, and it\u2019s a great first step in aligning external support for UOG degree programs,\u201d UOG Endowment Foundation director Janiece Sablan. \u201cOur mission is to provide impact to the University through community engagement, and in terms of greater educational enrichment for future accountants, this program was a logical fit for where to invest GBOA\u2019s generous donation.\u201d<\/p>\n Serving the community<\/strong> \u201cThe goal is to graduate accounting majors that hopefully become Certified Public Accountants (CPAs),\u201d Michele Santos said. \u201cThere is a need, and we want to help our students by using this money to strengthen the accounting profession on Guam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Guam School of Business and Public Administration (SBPA) welcomes associate professors of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11906,51,11907,445],"class_list":["post-229488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-gboa","tag-guam","tag-mississippi-college","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMorehead and Morgan, both associate professors of accountancy at Mississippi College, will be teaching at UOG Summer Session A.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2014, the GBOA contributed $1M to the UOG Endowment Foundation to establish the endowed chair program and has pledged continuous financial support for the program until the year 2020. In April 2016, GBOA made an additional contribution of $100K, with planned contributions of up to $200K in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n
\nMichele Santos, assistant executive director and licensing administrator at GBOA, said the Program\u2019s purpose is to serve not only an industry but community need. By adding value to the existing accounting program, GBOA hopes to prepare the next generation of accounting professionals that will serve Guam.<\/p>\n