December 31, 2003
Employer: Trinity University
Address: 715 Stadium Drive
San
Antonio, Texas, USA 78212-7200
Biographical Sketch
http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/
The above web site featured in The
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 14, 1998, Page A25
On August 15,
2002, Professor Jensen received the American Accounting Association's
Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the American Accounting
Association. In 2004, he received the AI/ET Section Outstanding Educator
Award for 2002-2003 Year. The AI/ET Section is the Artificial
Intelligence/Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting
Association. He has been an invited speaker at over 350 colleges and
universities. He has a Ph.D. in accounting from Stanford
University (1966). He is presently the Jesse H. Jones
Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at Trinity
University in San
Antonio. He was
formerly the Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Professor of Accounting and
Department Chairman at The Florida State University (1978-82), the Nicholas M. Salgo Professor of Accounting at the University
of Maine (1968-78), and Associate
Professor at Michigan State
University (1966-68). He also worked as a CPA for Ernst & Ernst
in Denver, Colorado
(1959-61). After stepping down as
Department Chairman at Florida State
University in 1982, he returned to
full-time teaching and research at Trinity
University. He has lectured extensively both inside and
outside the United States. In November 2000 he was an invited to speak
at the National Taiwan
University. In June 2001, he is invited to lecture at the
Globalization of Business Conference in Berlin. In October, he is invited to lecture on
International Accounting Issues in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. In Fall of 1998 he lectured in New
Zealand at the University
of Canterbury, Lincoln
University and the University
of Auckland. In 1993 he conducted a multimedia lecture
tour in Finland,
Sweden, the U.K.,
and Germany,
and was the 1993/94 British Accounting Association's Distinguished
International Visiting Scholar. For Summer 1983, he received a Visiting Scholar Award from the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He conducted research seminars at the University
of Waterloo. He received a similar award for Summer 1984 from the University
of Manitoba. In the Summer of
1988, he was invited to lecture at an Advanced Studies Institute (in Portugal)
sponsored by NATO. He has lectured at
the London School of Economics, Manchester
Business School,
University of Lancaster,
University of Glasgow,
Strathclyde University, Uppsula
University, Skovide University, South Bank
University, Southampton Institute, University
of Warwick, and the North Atlantic
Accounting Conference in Amsterdam. In the past decade he has been an invited
speaker at numerous universities and research conferences, including the 1992
Nissan Summer Institute for Historically Black Colleges. He has been an invited speaker at over 300
colleges and universities.
Professor
Jensen has spent two years in "think-tank" research on the campus of Stanford
University: 1971/72 as a Fellow at the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and 1973/74 as a Guggenheim
Fellow. He was named recipient of The
University of Maine Presidential Research Award in 1976 and in 1978 was voted
Outstanding Professor by the Graduate Business Student Association at the University
of Maine. He was also voted Outstanding Professor by
the Minority Business Association at Florida
State University
in 1982. His publications are mainly
devoted to research papers and monographs.
A 1994 book co-authored with Petrea Sandlin is entitled Electronic
Teaching and Learning: Trends in
Adapting to Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Networks in University Accounting
Education. His first monograph was
entitled Phantasmagoric Accounting published in 1977 by the American
Accounting Association. Another research
monograph on futurism and assumption analysis was also funded by the American
Accounting Association. A second
monograph entitled Review of Forecasts:
Scaling and Analysis of Expert Judgments Regarding Cross-Impacts of
Assumptions on Business, Forecasts and Accounting Measures appeared in
1983. In addition to research papers, he
also has two mystery novels near completion.
In August 1988, he was elected to a two-year term as Academic Vice
President of the American Accounting Association. He was the 1989/90 Vice President of the
South Texas Chapter of the Financial Executives Institute and became its
President for the 1990/91 term.
A major
interest in teaching and research in recent years has been the future of
education in the electronic classroom without walls via computer
networking. He has programmed over 2,000
hours of lecture and case material. His
website has won prizes as an education portal.
In 1995 he was selected for the Irwin Technology in Education Advisory
Board. In July of 1996, he was appointed
to the American Accounting Association Committee on Electronic Materials and
Dissemination. In 1996, he received the
$1,000 CETA Technology in Education Award.
In 1997, he received a $41,500 software grant from Microsoft
Corporation, a $5,000 Mellon Foundation Grant, and a $1,500 research grant from
Irwin Publishing Company.
For additional resume information go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/homepage.htm#Bob's
