Ingram Named New Director Of UA’s Culverhouse School Of Accountancy

TUSCALOOSA, AL. – Dr. Robert W. Ingram has been named director of the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at The University of Alabama, effective July 7, according to Dr. J. Barry Mason, dean of UA’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.

“We are extremely fortunate to have an individual the caliber of Rob Ingram on our faculty and available and willing to step into this extremely important position. The School of Accountancy has achieved a national reputation for excellence and I am certain that under Dr. Ingram’s leadership, that reputation will continue,” Mason said.

Ingram will replace Dr. Thomas Howard, who has been in the post the past 10 years. Howard has accepted the position of director of the School of Accountancy and PriceWaterhouseCoopers Professor at the University of Kentucky.

Ingram has been a professor at the University 16 years and is holder of the Ross-Culverhouse Chair and director of the Garner Center for Accounting Issues in the School of Accountancy. Prior appointments were at the University of Iowa and the University of South Carolina. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. His Ph.D. is from Texas Tech University. He is a CPA.

Ingram teaches accounting information systems and financial accounting. He has published four accounting textbooks and 10 educational and research monographs. His approximately 70 articles have appeared in various academic and professional journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, among others. His awards include the National Alumni Association Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award, the Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Research, the Notable Contribution to the Literature Award of the Government and Nonprofit Section of the American Accounting Association, the Thomas D. Moore Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Alabama Society of CPAs Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, the Alabama Association for Higher Education in Business Award for Excellence and Professional Contributions, and the UA Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Educator Award.

The Culverhouse graduate accounting program is ranked 17th in the latest rankings by Public Accounting Report. The Princeton Review of the 80 Best Business Schools says UA students “develop strong accounting skills.”