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2004 Best Practices Awards
The Beta Alpha Psi Board of Directors
will recognize chapters who go above and beyond a normal level of
activity in professional activities, service activities, and/or
innovative programs with the Beta Alpha Psi Best Practices Awards.
The Best Practices Awards Program is intended to recognize
extraordinary achievement and is designed to encourage chapters to
undertake innovative and unique activities that excel in terms of
chapter commitment and demonstrated, highly successful outcomes.
These awards are designed to encourage chapters to think and act
“outside the box” in planning and conducting chapter activities.
Award-seeking and baseline chapters may compete for a Beta Alpha Psi
Best Practices Award. To be eligible for an award, the chapter, at a
minimum, must meet the baseline chapter requirements as specified in
the Program of Chapter Activities for the year in which the award is
being sought. Secondly, chapters must present its Best Practice
Portfolio at the appropriate Beta Alpha Psi regional meeting. Members
of the Board of Directors and the International Advisory Forum
participate in evaluating the presentations (see attached Evaluation
Form). Presentations at the regional meetings must be no more than 10
minutes in length and must be accompanied by an abstract that
includes:
·
An outline of the
project
·
Goals of the project
·
Expected outcome of the
project
·
Names of the members
participating
·
Names of the non-members
participating
·
Number of member hours
devoted to developing the presentation
·
Benefits to the chapter
and others served by the project (i.e., lessons learned, etc.)
·
Financial analysis of
the Best Practice (i.e., how much does it cost to implement the
practice?)
All Best Practice
presentations will be made using overhead transparencies and an
overhead projector. Powerpoint or Freelance presentations are
not allowed.
Deloitte and
Touche, LLP will provide funding for the regional Best Practices
Awards this year. The levels of funding will be $500, $250, and $125
for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place
finishers, respectively, at the regional meetings. First place
winners compete at the International meeting for a $1,000 award.
This year, the
three Best Practices topics are:
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Professional- Promoting accounting, finance, and/or information
systems careers to the community
·
Service
– Most informative and useful website
·
Innovation
The deadline for submitting a final
copy of your paper is
January 30, 2004. A final
copy of your paper should be e-mailed to Jessica Watson: jmwatson@uncc.edu.
Please contact Jessica if you have any questions.
The abstract is
due to Jessica Watson at UNC Charlotte by
January 15, 2004!
Please email them to:
jmwatson@uncc.edu.
Paper Presentations Student --$100 Prize
The
2004 Southeast Regional Meeting provides students an opportunity to
present a research paper on a topic related to our theme "Managing
Information Risks." We encourage both undergraduate and graduate
students to enter this competition. The overall best submissions will
be invited to present their paper at the regional meeting. A $100
cash prize plus a plaque will be awarded for best undergraduate
paper as well as best graduate paper. A list of "Paper
Presentation Topics" related to our theme may be found in
Appendix A.
The process for selecting
papers for presentation is indicated in
Appendix B
entitled "Checklist for Writing Manuscripts." Papers selected for
presentation will be presented at the regional meeting and evaluated
using criteria shown in
Appendix C
(Oral Manuscript
Evaluation Form).
The maximum number of pages, including
references, should not exceed 10.
Your
Manuscripts should be double spaced using a font size of 12.
All paper presentations will be made using overhead transparencies and
an overhead projector. Multimedia presentations using PowerPoint or
Freelance are not allowed.
The deadline for submitting a final copy of your paper is
January 30, 2004. A final
copy of your paper should be e-mailed to Jessica Watson: jmwatson@uncc.edu.
Please contact Jessica if you have any questions.
The abstract is
due to Jessica Watson at UNC Charlotte by
January 15, 2004!
Please email them to:
jmwatson@uncc.edu.
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