Allison Ambrose
Teaches both undergraduate and graduate accounting courses as well as Leadership Through People Skills.
Dr. Ambrose has served as chair of the accounting department, director of the Master of Accounting program and the director of academic services for the MBA program and is currently the associate dean in the College of Business. Her doctoral expertise is in higher education studies, which includes investigating all types of phenomenon that occur in today's higher education setting. She has presented on issues in higher education at the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Ambrose is former president of the Eastern Chapter of the Iowa Society of CPAs and is currently an active volunteer in the American Accounting Association and the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Illinois State University
PhD, Educational Administration
University of Iowa
BA, MA, Accounting
Accounting Education, Contemporary Higher Education Issues, Financial Aid Policy for College Students
Accounting Principles I
Intermediate Accounting III
Auditing
International Accounting (MAcc)
Social Auditing (MAcc)
Accounting for Managers (MBA)
Leadership Through People Skills (MBA)
Poster Presentation, Student Characteristics of Merit Aid Recipients: Differences by Gender, Race and Socioeconomics, Annual Conference, Association for the Study of Higher Education (2010)
Presenter, Student Characteristics of Merit Aid Recipients: Structural and Human Agency Determinants Across Time. Annual Conference, American Educational Research Association (2010)
Presenter, A Case Study Comparison of Lithuanian and US Maters Students, European
Studies Conference. University of Nebraska at Omaha. (2009)
Presenter, Student Characteristics of Merit Aid Recipients: Structural and Human Agency
Determinants, Annual Conference, Student Financial Aid Research Network. (2009)
Presenter, The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business: Its Changing Role as an
Accrediting Body, Annual Meeting, Midwest History of Education Society. (2008)
Co-presenter, Recession, Retrenchment, and Recovery: State Higher Education Funding and
Student Financial Aid (Phase II), Annual Meeting, Association for the Study of Higher Education. (2006)
Co-presenter, States, Sectors and Students: the Impact of Merit Aid on Access and Enrollment,
Annual Meeting, Association for the Study of Higher Education. (2006)
Co-presenter, The Bologna Process and US-EU University Cooperation - Opportunities and
Challenges, European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha. (2006)
Co-presenter, Recession, Retrenchment, and Recovery: State Higher Education Funding and
Student Financial Aid, Annual Meeting, Association for the Study of Higher Education. (2005)
Selected for the Association for the Study of Higher Education/Lumina Foundation Fellowship
Program (2008)
