Marriott School Associate Dean Receives Prestigious National Accounting Education Award

PROVO, Utah — May 31, 2001 — The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) recognized the educational accomplishments of Brigham Young University professor W. Steve Albrecht with its most prestigious educators award last month.

Albrecht, the associate dean of the Marriott School of Management, received AICPA’s Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award at the organization’s annual council meeting in Washington,D.C.

“There are a lot of qualified people who could have gotten this. I’m honored they chose me,” Albrecht said. “I made a commitment early in my career to be the best professor I could be and to never turn down an opportunity to serve, and that has made all the difference.”

State CPA societies across the nation nominate individuals for the award who not only strive for excellence in the classroom but also remain active in national accounting organizations. AICPA’s Education Executive Committee then selects a winner.

Albrecht, who was the president of the American Accounting Association from 1997 to 1998, has also received outstanding educator awards from BYU (1986 and 1988), Stanford University (1977), the Universityof Illinois (1976), the University of Wisconsin (1974) and the Utah Association of CPAs (1997).

Albrecht’s current educational efforts include co-authoring a recent report, Accounting Education:Charting the Course through a Perilous Future, which is stimulating changes in university accounting programs across the nation, and directing a pioneering project to make the Marriott School’s re-accreditation data available to accreditors online — the first business school in the United States to do so.

The Marriott School is located at Brigham Young University, the largest privately owned, church-sponsored university in the United States. The school has nationally and internationally ranked programs in accountancy, business management, information systems, organizational behavior and entrepreneurship. The mission of the Marriott School is to educate men and women of faith, character and professional ability who will become outstanding managers and leaders throughout the world. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in the Marriott School's graduate and undergraduate programs.