CHAIR PROFESSORSHIPS IN BUSINESS IN THE UNITED STATES
This paper provides a profile of the 1,454 business chair professorships in the United States in 1997. The five disciplines covered are accounting, economics, finance, management, and marketing. The University of Pennsylvania had the largest number of chairholders in business in 1997. Three other schools that had more than 40 chairholders each were Harvard, Northwestern and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Harvard produced the highest number of graduates serving as chairholders followed by Chicago, MIT, Texas at Austin, Illinois, and Stanford. Most of the schools that produced large numbers of chairholders are listed among the best business schools in the United States.
A Profile of Accounting Chair Professorships in 1992.
Abstract A profile of the 305 accounting chairholders in the United States in 1992 is presented. Data and statistics were obtained from Hasselback's Accounting Faculty Directory between 1980 and 1992. The number of chair professorships increased rapidly during the 1980s and the early 1990s. To a great extent, the composite profile of chairholders provided by Worthington et al. (1989) is still valid in 1992. Most of the chairholders are faculty members at Southwest Conference or Big Ten universities. However, many non-doctorate-granting schools have also offered chair professorships in significant numbers in recent years. The areas of specialization of the 305 chairholders in 1992 have also been broadened to include managerial/cost, auditing, taxation, systems/computers, and international accounting. More research is needed to study many important but largely unexplored issues on accounting chair professorships.
Continents of Liberty: Emerson and Gerald Vizenor’s Chair of Tears
Ralph Waldo Emerson protested what came to be known as the Trail of Tears in a public letter to President Martin Van Buren in 1838. Th e Cherokee Nation, he argued, had been cheated by a “sham treaty” (Emerson, “Letter” 50), the will of the people ignored, and a false acquiescence to removal written into law. In making a passionate appeal to the highest “chair” of the land, Emerson underscored the great political and moral stakes involved: