Albright Receives MBA Award

Dr. Tom Albright, Professor and J. Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow in Accounting, was the recipient of the MBA Faculty Excellence Award for 2008. He has won the award on several occasions in the past 18 years of his tenure at The University. Tom says the award is “gratifying as it is voted on and presented by the students.”

The MBA course that Tom teaches is a combination of financial and managerial accounting concepts, with an emphasis on using accounting information to make business decisions. Tom uses a combination of lectures to teach basic concepts and case discussions to apply the concepts in a real-world situation.