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    Making the Most of Student Employment: Revising Onboarding, Evaluation, and Student Projects
    (North Dakota State University, 2018) Trude, Laura; Aaker, Debbie
    We undertook three initiatives related to student workers this past year: improving and spreading out the onboarding process, revising student worker evaluations to connect their work to competencies valued by employers, and adding semester-long projects that allow students to explore areas of interest during their down time on the desk while working on something that benefits the library. This poster will summarize the problems we addressed, best practices from the literature, what we did, and what we learned from implementation.
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    Research Productivity of Accounting Professors Around a Change in Institutional Affiliation
    (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019) Dowdell, Thomas D. Jr.; Herda, David N.; Pizzini, Mina J.; Trude, Laura
    This study examines the scholarly output of accounting researchers in time periods surrounding a change in university affiliation. Our expectation that publishing activity will increase in periods around an institutional change is based on expectancy theories and informed by studies on the contract year performances of professional athletes. Using a sample of 635 accounting professors who switched universities between 2008 and 2014, we find evidence that accounting authors who switch universities publish more in the years around a switch compared to other years. Our research contributes to the literature on changes in university affiliation by documenting a contract year phenomenon operating within accounting academia. Practical implications for college administrators are discussed.