Maureen Butler, an Assistant Professor in the School of Accountancy, has had her paper titled "Human Resource Outsourcing: Market Performance of Service Providers" accepted for presentation at the American Accounting Association's (AAA) 2008 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting. The Management Accounting Section of the AAA has their midyear meeting from January 10-12, 2008 in Long Beach, California. Dr. Butler co-authored the paper with Carolyn Callahan and Rod Smith.

The deadline for final submissions to the special issue of the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal is December 15, 2007. The issue is on "Issues in Employee and Retirement Benefits". Papers should be submitted to Guest Editor Cynthia Cohen. Click here for more information.

Dr. Alan Hevner, MIS Professor in Information Systems and Decision Sciences, has accepted the position of Senior Editor for Management Information Systems (MIS) Quarterly. MIS Quarterly, a peer reviewed scholarly journal, is consistently ranked as the number one journal in the information systems field. Dr. Hevner begins his three-year appointment in January 2008.

Michael Barnett, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, was recently appointed to the Patel Faculty Research Fellows Program of the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions. The center will provide compensation to support the development of his research on the intersection of business practice and sustainability.