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Boot-camps and Student Recruitment

Ruth Ann McEwen, PhDDirector, School of Accounting

FIU

April 17, 2015

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Entry Examination Boot-Camps

• FIU ensures that students are prepared for major-area coursework by requiring students to pass an entry examination

• The exam assesses knowledge of Principles of Accounting, usually taught as second-year course

• Students must score 75% to be admitted into third-year accounting coursework

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Boot-Camps

• While FIU offers a semester-long review course, we believed that an intensive boot-camp directly before the exam would help students concentrate

• We initiated the boot-camp with TEAm grant money in the Summer of 2014.

• A typical agenda follows.

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Agenda- First Day

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Agenda- Second Day

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Agenda- Last Day

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Boot-Camps

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Boot-Camps

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Student Recruitment

• FIU works with MDC to ensure that their students are prepared to take the entry examination

• Both FIU and MDC offer semester-long review courses, and we invite MDC students to the intensive boot-camps

• FIU also has used the TEAm grant to subsidize accounting advising for MDC and Broward College students

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Student Recruitment

• We train and assist MDC advisors • One of our FIU advisors visits

different MDC campuses to inform students about the entry exam and other FIU policies

• We intend to extend advisor training to Broward College Fall 2015

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Thank You!