Facilitation of Student Success in Introductory Accounting

The students participating in this project are part of a group of students known as McCombs Success Scholars (MSS). Such students have been identified as potentially not as well prepared for academic success as some of their McCombs-school peers (i.e., they grew up in smaller cities/towns, their family’s socio-economic status tilts toward the lower end of the scale, they attended a small high school). The goal of this project is to help students improve their performance in a required introductory accounting course (ACC 312) and, in so doing, to increase the number of students interested in majoring in accounting. The key activity will be meeting with students weekly throughout the spring 2020 semester to discuss any challenges they are facing in their introductory accounting course, to (briefly) discuss potential accounting careers, and (primarily) to go over material being taught and discussed in the course. These weekly meetings in which the course material will be reviewed will, hopefully, improve their academic outcomes in a required course that is often a hurdle to academic success in the McCombs School and will, as a result, increase interest in accounting as a major.