Eastern Accounting Professor Receives IMA Faculty Leadership Award
Willimantic, CT (01/29/2019) — The Association of Accountants and Financial Professionals (AAFP) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) recently named Mohd RuJoub, professor of accounting at Eastern Connecticut State University, recipient of its 2018 Distinguished Service Award for Educators. The IMA presented RuJoub on Nov. 3, 2018, at the IMA Student Leadership Annual Conference in St. Louis, MO.
The IMA has more than 100,000 members world wide, yet only grants one faculty leadership award per year. The award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated exemplary leadership within and service to the IMA, and has demonstrated significant leadership activities at the national, regional and/or local levels of the IMA. Additional contributions and activities include supporting student participation and student chapters in IMA; leadership, participation and support of the Annual Student Case Competition; recruiting students into meaningful participation in the local, regional and national IMA; and supporting research and writing in IMA publications, such as "Strategic Finance and Management Accounting Quarterly" and other IMA-sponsored research.
"Congratulations! It is an honor for us to choose you from an outstanding group of candidates as a distinguished leader among your peers and an active supporter of IMA activities," wrote Kerry Butkera, IMA's research and academics relations administrator, in a letter to Rujoub. "The IMA appreciates your time and dedication to your students and the IMA."
Rujoub resides in Hebron. He has been attending the IMA Student Leadership Conference with Eastern students every year for the past 18 years. This year, he took six students to the conference. "Thank you very much for this award," said Rujoub. "I am deeply grateful. It is an immense honor to be recognized by the IMA organization for the 2018 Leadership Award. What a pleasant surprise! Everyone in the IMA organization is so gracious to recognize my work in this way."
Under Rujoub's tutelage, the accounting program at Eastern has risen in prestige. In 2015, Rujoub set up a scholarship in his name - the Dr. Mohd Rujoub and Family Endowed Accounting Scholarship. Scholarship are granted to accounting majors with a minimum 3.0 GPA and in financial need. To donate, visit: https://ecsufoundation.com/annual-fund.
Written by Dwight Bachman
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Eastern Connecticut State University is the state of Connecticut's public liberal arts university, serving more than 5,300 students annually at its Willimantic campus and satellite locations. In addition to attracting students from 163 of Connecticut's 169 towns, Eastern also draws students from 26 other states and 20 other countries. A residential campus offering 40 majors and 65 minors, Eastern offers students a strong liberal art foundation grounded in an array of applied learning opportunities. Ranked the 25th top public university in the North Region by U.S. News and World Report in its 2018 Best College ratings, Eastern has also been awarded 'Green Campus' status by the Princeton Review eight years in a row. For more information, visit www.easternct.edu.
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Dr. RuJoub received the distinguished service award at the IMA's annual conference this past November.
