Accounting & MIS professor wins teaching award
Clinton "Skip" White Jr
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4:51 p.m., Aug. 13, 2009----Clinton "Skip" White Jr., professor of accounting and management information systems (MIS) in the University of Delaware's Lerner College of Business and Economics, received the 2009 Outstanding Educator Award from the Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association at the 2009 annual meeting in New York City, Aug. 3.

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White was honored with the award for “his outstanding perception and leadership in the application of technology to accounting education.” In addition to many academic research and pedagogical publications, White is the area head of MIS and the author of two leading textbooks on XBRL, The Guide & Workbook for Understanding XBRL and The Accountant's Guide to XBRL.

"I am honored to receive the award," White said. "As an academic, I have devoted my teaching and research efforts to new and emerging information technologies. This award is recognition for those efforts. "

White's teaching interests include XML technologies, the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), current issues in MIS, IT auditing, accounting information systems and the application of IT to solve business problems.

White received the Institute of Management Accountants Best Paper Award in 2006 and was in a team of three grand prize-winners in the 2001-02 XBRL Academic Competition. He served as Webmaster for the American Accounting Association from 1995-98 and received the association's Outstanding Service Award in 1998.

White received a bachelor's degree in history and government at Western Kentucky University in 1969 and an MBA from the University of Louisville in 1975. He received a doctorate in business administration (DBA) in accounting and MIS at Indiana University in 1981.

White served in the U.S. Army as a military intelligence specialist with the First Special Action Force in Southeast Asia from 1969-70. Before he joined UD, White taught accounting and MIS at Pennsylvania State University from 1981-87.

Article by Martin A Mbugua
Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson

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