The Economics, Business, and Accounting department is developing the Center for Commerce and Freedom, offering an annual conference, fellowship program, public lectures, and a publication paper series, aimed to promote Hillsdale College’s approach to education in business and economics, according to Associate Professor of Economics Charles Steele. Hillsdale also plans to hire two additional professors...
In this quick hits interview, Associate Professor of Accounting James Webb talks AC/DC, film noir, and advice for people who hate math. Webb joined the Hillsdale College faculty after teaching accounting and business at University of California-Berkeley. If you had to have one song playing in the back of your head forever, what would it...
Just 19 Hillsdale College students are tackling the accounting major. The task is not for the faint of heart. Demanding extra credit hours and a big exam, an accounting career takes a lot of work — but it’s not all in vain. Professor of Accounting Michael Sweeney contends that Hillsdale’s liberal arts education equips accounting...
Professor of Accounting Michael Sweeney accepted the Teaching Excellence Award from the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants at a banquet on Oct. 5. The association notified Sweeney about the award in the spring, after Lecturer in Accounting Louis Petro nominated him for the honor. “The MICPA Accounting Teaching Excellence Award recognizes educators who excel...
Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants awarded Adjunct Professor of Accounting Lou Petro as its most outstanding accounting professor of the year on Sept. 30. Petro received the Accounting Teaching Excellence Award. “It was very funny at the awards banquet,” Petro said. “Almost every one of them was my old student.” Petro started teaching accounting...