{"id":5160,"date":"2026-10-22T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/?page_id=5160"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:06:17","slug":"message-from-the-dean","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/department-of-accountancy-2026-annual-report\/message-from-the-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/files\/2026\/10\/Jenny-2026-headshot-400.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny Darroch\" class=\"has-border-color has-grey-border-color wp-image-5193\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/files\/2026\/10\/Jenny-2026-headshot-400.jpg 408w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/files\/2026\/10\/Jenny-2026-headshot-400-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Farmer School of Business Dean Jenny Darroch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a strong start to the semester it has been at Farmer! From students connecting with employers at <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/2026\/09\/beta-alpha-psi-hosts-annual-meet-the-firms-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet the Firms<\/a> to faculty sharing their research and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/2026\/08\/experiential-learning-in-the-age-of-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exploring technology in the curriculum<\/a>, there is so much exciting work happening across the Department of Accountancy. Along with some <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/2026\/10\/master-of-accountancy-students-bond-over-pickleball-sundays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pickleball<\/a>! We\u2019re especially pleased with the U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s&nbsp;recognition of our accountancy program, ranking No. 52 among national universities and No. 23 among national public universities in their&nbsp;Best Undergraduate Accounting Programs list. I\u2019m grateful to the faculty, staff, students, alumni and professional partners whose energy makes this community so special. I look forward to all we\u2019ll accomplish together in the months ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"159\" height=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/files\/2023\/10\/JD_sig.png\" alt=\"Signed, Jenny Darroch\" class=\"wp-image-1563\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/2026-annual-report-toc\/\">Back to the 2026 Annual Report Contents<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a strong start to the semester it has been at Farmer! From students connecting with employers at Meet the Firms to faculty sharing their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2567,"featured_media":5193,"parent":4848,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5160","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5197,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5160\/revisions\/5197"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/doamu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}