L.S. Rosen Outstanding Educator Award

Professor Fred Phillips is the 2012 L.S. Rosen Award Recipient

 

The L.S. Rosen Outstanding Educator Award Committee is pleased to name Fred Phillips, Ph.D., C.A., professor and Baxter Scholar,University of Saskatchewan, this year’s L.S. Rosen Award recipient.    

In the opinion of the committee, Fred Phillips excels in all of the criteria established for this award. As evidenced by the number of awards he has received over the years, he has demonstrated excellence in teaching since he began his academic career in 1996. Beside recognition for teaching, he has received awards for his research, case- and textbook-writings.

A two-time winner of the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award, Professor Phillips was awarded his University’s highest peer-adjudicated teaching award and was named Master Teacher in 2006; and, in 2011, he received the 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

Professor Phillips’ award-winning teaching materials include four textbooks and numerous teaching cases, and he has won four CAAA case-writing competitions. His development of teaching materials has been recognized with the 2012 AAA Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award, and the 2010 University of Saskatchewan Provost's Award for Innovation in Learning.

He has also published frequently on education topics (as well as on other topics) and he has been recognized by the Accounting Educator’s Journal as the most prolific accounting education researcher for the period 1998-2007. And in 2006 and 2007, he won the AAA Outstanding Research in Accounting Education Award.

Currently, Professor Phillips’ focus is on developing innovative educational technologies for undergraduate education. He has supervised eight honours papers and three M.Sc. theses, and has mentored both students and junior colleagues who wrote to support his nomination for this award.

Professor Phillips helped to found the University of Saskatchewan’s innovative Master of Professional Accounting Program. He has also contributed service to many organizations and journals that support accounting education, including being an Associate Editor of Issues in Accounting Education and a member of the editorial board of Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Case Research, and Accounting Perspectives. He has also been active with the CICA, the ICAS and the CAAA.

Professor Fred Phillips exemplifies the excellence and dedication to accounting education that the L.S. Rosen Award is meant to recognize. Therefore, on behalf of the CAAA’s Board of Directors, we offer our congratulations to him.

Members of the 2012 L.S. Rosen Award Committee:

Alan J. Richardson, Chair, York University

Sylvain Durocher, University of Ottawa

Cynthia Simmons, University of Calgary