AECC announces grants to community colleges.The Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC AECC Association for Emissions Control by Catalyst AECC Aeromedical Evacuation Control Center AECC Aeromedical Evacuation Coordination Center AECC Aerojet Energy Conversion Company AECC American Evangelical Christian Church, Inc. ) announced curriculum development grants to Kirkwood Community College Kirkwood Community College is a community college serving seven counties in Iowa. Kirkwood's main campus is in Cedar Rapids, with additional buildings in Marion, Iowa City, Belle Plaine, Monticello, Tipton, Vinton, Washington and Williamsburg. , Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids, city (1990 pop. 108,751), seat of Linn co., E central Iowa, on the Cedar River; inc. as a city 1856. The second largest city in Iowa, it is named for the surging rapids in the river. , Iowa, and Mesa Community College Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona, is the largest of the 10 community colleges in the Maricopa County Community College District. Enrollment in the spring of 2002 topped 24,000 full- and part-time students. , Mesa, Arizona. The two recipients will use the grants to restructure their first-year accounting courses. In most cases, these courses can subsequently be transferred to four-year colleges or universities. In announcing the grants, Doyle Z. Williams, chairman of the AECC, said, "Two-year colleges are an important link in the education chain for many four-year accounting graduates." He added that 97% of four-year accounting programs grant credit for the transfer of introductory accounting courses taken at two-year colleges. He also pointed to a survey that indicated 27% of Institute of Management Accounting members and 19% of members joining the American Institute of CPAs took their introductory accounting courses at two-year schools. |
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