Apr 3, 2020
SPECIAL EDITION!!!
HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY!!!
FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION
Accounting professor Alexander Gabbin was born on September 6,
1945 in Baltimore, Maryland. Gabbin earned his B.A. degree in
economics and mathematics from Howard University in Washington,
D.C. in 1967. He went on to earn his M.B.A. degree from the
University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1970 and his Ph.D.
degree in accounting from Temple University, Graduate School of
Business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1986.Gabbin became a
certified public accountant in the State of Illinois in 1971 and in
the State of Pennsylvania in 1979.
Gabbin left a public accounting career with Touche Ross & Co in
1973 to work at the Chicago Urban League during its financial
crisis as Deputy Executive Director- Administration. He began his
teaching career in 1975 at Lincoln University in Chester County,
Pennsylvania as an associate professor in the department of
economics and business administration. In 1985, Gabbin joined James
Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia as a Commonwealth
Visiting Professor. In 1990, he was promoted to associate professor
and in 1995 he achieved tenure and was promoted to full professor.
From 1994 to 1998, he was director of the School of Accounting and
program director of the School of Professional Studies.
In addition to his teaching career, Gabbin published a variety of
articles in scholarly publications, including: Issues in
Accounting Education, The CPA Journal,
the Journal of Accounting Education,
the Journal of Accountancy, Business
Communications Quarterly, The Accounting Educator’s
Journal and Assessment Update. Gabbin
co-founded the National Black MBA Association in 1970 and is an
August 10, 1994 charter member of KPMG’s PhD Project and Accounting
Doctoral Students Association.
Gabbin received the Builders Award from Third World Press in 1978,
the Accounting Educators Award of the National Association of
Minority CPA Firms in 1979, the Lindback Award for Distinguished
Teaching, in 1982, and the James Madison University College of
Business Distinguished Teacher Award for 2005-2006. Gabbin is the
only four-time recipient of the James Madison University
Outstanding Teacher in Accounting Award in 1986, 1988, 1990, and
1992. In 1991, he was selected as an Adolph Coors Foundation
professor of accounting, and he has been selected as a KPMG
professor of accounting since 1994. Since 1998, Gabbin has chaired
the Franklin D. Watkins Memorial Award selection committee of the
National Alliance of African American Athletes.
In 2000, Gabbin received the National Black MBA Association
Lifetime Membership Award. In 2016, he received the Distinguished
Faculty Award of the Lincoln University Alumni Association, and a
February 16, 2016 Senate of Pennsylvania Citation for exemplary
dedication to higher education.
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