Faculty Award:

Elizabeth Kolar, assistant professor of business and chair of the Business Department at Delaware Valley College, has been named Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The award will be presented during the 2008 Accounting Education Conference, Friday, November 14 at Villanova University.

The Outstanding Accounting Educator Program recognizes full-time Pennsylvania college and university accounting educators who have distinguished themselves in the classroom setting and are actively involved in the accounting profession. The award is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) is a professional association of more than 19,000 CPAs working together to improve the profession and better serve the public interest.

Liz joined the faculty of Delaware Valley College in 2004. Prior to joining the College, she had been teaching beginning, intermediate and advanced accounting classes at Bucks County Community College. She has also taught at Seton Hall University and Pace University. Kolar has helped prepare students from all the institutions at which she has taught to prepare for the auditing section of the CPA exam. Prior to her teaching career, Kolar was a senior auditor with Coopers and Lybrand in New York. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in public accounting from Pace University. She is a Certified Public Accountant.