Wesleyan Professor Kel-Ann Eyler Receives Prestigious Accounting Educator Award
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Wesleyan College Associate Professor of Accounting Dr. Kel-Ann Eyler was awarded the Accounting Educator of the Year Award from the Georgia Society for CPAs (GSCPA). Each year, the prestigious award is presented by the GSCPA Educational Foundation to one educator who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to educating accountants.
Inaugurated over 20 years ago, the award program was established to encourage colleges and universities throughout Georgia to maintain a high level of education of those students who study accounting and to raise the level of awareness for the importance of an accounting education in the business community. The statewide award also recognizes recipients for outstanding leadership in professional organizations, writing, speaking and research in the business field and motivating students to excellent performance in their scholastic and professional careers. The award presentation was made during the GSCPA 2009 annual meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 2006, Dr. Eyler joined the Wesleyan College faculty as an associate professor of accounting. She earned a B.S. from the University of Virginia and an M.P.A. and Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Prior to 2006, Eyler had served as an adjunct accounting instructor for Wesleyan’s Executive MBA program since 2001. During that time, she also held a position on the faculty at Brenau University as associate professor of accounting. Eyler’s 25 years of teaching experience, plus several years in public accounting and industry, strengthen Wesleyan’s business department.
Dr. Eyler also serves as the President of the Georgia Association of Accounting Educators (GAAE), board member of the Georgia Society of CPAs (GSCPA) Educational Foundation, and Co-Chair of the GSCPA College Outreach Task Force. She has been an invited speaker at various venues, including Mary Persons High School in Forsyth, Southwest High School in Macon, the Accounting Career Awareness Committee High School Honors Luncheons, the GSCPA High School Residency Program at Georgia Southern University, the FBLA Field of Dreams program in Warner Robins, and the GSCPA High School Educators Conferences in Atlanta.
Eyler often infuses her curriculum with real world examples as well as enriching service-learning components. In the past years, for example, she encouraged her students to spend some evenings and Saturdays during February, March, and April volunteering with the Macon Housing Authority and Wesleyan’s Lane Center for Community Engagement and Service as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. The accounting students successfully complete a Basic Tax Preparation online course through the IRS so that they are able to help prepare 1040EZ tax returns for eligible participants in the VITA program.
May, 2009 |
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