The Road Less Traveled: A Nontraditional Path to Teaching and Scholarship

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cainas, Jennifer M.
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
• 刊物名称: ACCOUNTING REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4826; 1558-7967
• DOI: 10.2308/TAR-2025-0553
• 发表日期: 2026-01
• 页码: 503-508
• 关键词: Doctor of Business Administration; career; teaching; administration; pipeline

摘要

This paper discusses my experiences as a nontenure track faculty member who now serves as an Associate Dean. It is based on my Presidential Scholar Lecture at the 2024 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting. In 2012, the Pathways Commission outlined the need and a path for more practitioners to join academia (Behn et al. 2012), and my academic career advanced partly due to that initiative. Earning a Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) degree from University of Florida allowed me to support my school as a scholarly academic and pursue research that enhances my teaching and provided me with a path to administration as a nontenure track faculty member.