Patrick Hennessee:
1999-2000 recipient of Oklahoma Society of CPAs Outstanding Educator Award.
The accounting profession continues to change. Accounting professionals are embracing a new vision. (Click here to learn more about the CPA Vision.)
The primary mission of the University of Tulsa's School of Accounting and MIS is to provide educational programs that prepare students for the role of business information professionals with expertise in analysis and reporting, translating complex information into critical knowledge, and decision-making.
Program Objectives: In addition to the requisite technical knowledge, we strive to provide our graduates with:
Lifelong learning tools
Critical thinking abilities
Effective personal and communication skills
Information technology skills
Professional team leadership abilities
A global view of business issues and opportunities
In addition to a broad liberal education, we emphasize relevant and integrated business, technology, and financial knowledge and skills. The accounting faculty has created an educational climate whereby our students are motivated to acquire learning abilities that will serve them throughout their professional lives. To achieve this type of learning environment, active student participation and student learning by discovery are important pedagogical aspects used throughout our curriculum.
Personalized Education
The School of Accounting and MIS strives to provide students with:
Small classes
Classes taught by full time faculty who interact not only in the classroom but also in social settings and student organizations
Numerous opportunities for students to interact with professional accountants and other business professionals
Our Focus
Our faculty recognizes that the discipline of accounting is ever evolving and expanding. We believe that accounting is an information development and distribution function for economic decisions.
Our curriculum is designed to integrate information technology to enhance the value of the study of accounting. Through this integration, we strive to prepare our graduates to enter information age companies. We also strive to give our students an appreciation and understanding of the global issues that face organizations.
Our goal is to develop graduates with the knowledge, skills and abilities to both contribute to the profession of accounting and succeed at increasing levels of responsibility in business and society.
In addition to a broad liberal education, we emphasize relevant and integrated business, technology, and financial knowledge and skills. The accounting faculty has created an educational climate whereby our students are motivated to acquire learning abilities that will serve them throughout their professional lives. To achieve this type of learning environment, active student participation and student learning by discovery are important pedagogical aspects used throughout our curriculum. 