Dirsmith Honored For Undergraduate Teaching
Dirsmith Honored For Undergraduate Teaching
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (January 28, 2004)—In honor of his commitment to higher education and contributions to undergraduate learning, Mark Dirsmith, the Deloitte & Touche Professor of Accounting at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, has been named as a recipient of Penn State’s George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
A member of the Smeal faculty since 1975, Dirsmith has taught a range of accounting courses, with a primary focus on auditing instruction including financial, compliance, internal, and operational audits; standards and procedures; and professional issues. He has taught auditing to more than 1,000 students since 1990.
Dirsmith, who led development of a writing component for Smeal’s auditing course, also developed the college’s Honors Seminar in Business. He has supervised more than 50 honors theses and currently serves as director of Smeal’s Schreyer Honors Program. For more than 15 years, Dirsmith also directed Smeal’s accounting internship program.
A prodigious researcher, Dirsmith is the author of more than 100 publications, including three monographs and over 70 journal articles in accounting, institutional economics, organizational theory, public administration, health care administration, sociology, and strategic management journals. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, American and Pennsylvania Institutes of CPAs, and Academy of Management, and serves as a member on editorial boards and is a manuscript reviewer for several accounting and management journals and the National Science Foundation.
Dirsmith is a past recipient of the Les Shonto Undergraduate Excellence in Accounting Education Award and a department nominee for the Fred Brand Jr. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
