{"id":2645,"date":"2010-05-05T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2013-07-31T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:23:48","slug":"accounting-and-information-systems-department-wins-2010-dahne-award-for-faculty-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Accounting and Information Systems Department Wins 2010 Dahne Award for Faculty Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2647  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/accounting_dahne.jpg\" alt=\"dahne winners 2010\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R): Accounting and Information Systems faculty members Abdus Shahid, Gerald J. Miller (department chair), Sunita Ahlawat, Mark J. Nigrini, and C. Andrew Lafond with William Keep (dean of the School of Business) and John Marcy (vice president for college advancement). Missing from the picture are department faculty members Lynn M. Braender, Bea Chiang, Hossein Nouri, and Patricia E. Wallace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnj.edu\/~business\/accountancy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Accounting and Information Systems<\/a> was named the winner of the Mildred Dahne Award for academic year 2009\u201310. <strong>John Marcy<\/strong>, vice president for college advancement at TCNJ, presented department faculty members and <strong>William Keep<\/strong>, dean of the School of Business, with the award at a Faculty Senate meeting on May 5, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The accounting and information systems department won the award based on its accomplishments in the areas of excellence in teaching, academic excellence, and student involvement. Some of the department\u2019s notable accomplishments were the development of an innovative capstone course, along with presenting multiple stakeholders\u2019 testimonies regarding the program\u2019s high standards. The department\u2019s application also highlighted a continuing and strong collaboration of students with faculty in research, along with an impressive list of scholarly work by faculty.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, TCNJ Foundation received a bequest from <strong>Mildred M. Dahne \u201932<\/strong>, which earmarked $217,000 to annually recognize faculty excellence. The Department of Accounting and Information Systems received a $6,000 cash prize this year, which according to the Faculty Senate\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnj.edu\/~senate\/dahneaward.html\">Web site<\/a> can be used to augment departmental funds or as stipend and professional development funds that may be used to cover the costs of attending conferences or the purchase of equipment and resource materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, TCNJ Foundation received a bequest from Mildred M. Dahne \u201932, which earmarked $217,000 to annually recognize faculty excellence. This year&#8217;s winner, the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, was recognized for its accomplishments in the areas of excellence in teaching, academic excellence, and student involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","category-may-2010","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}