 Linda McElvey
Distinguished Teaching Award
Department: Senior Lecturer, Business
Administration, UW Tacoma; three years at UW.
Courses Taught: Intermediate Accounting and Business Finance,
a non-accounting course required for all business majors that surveys financial
markets.
Achievements: McElvey's students praise her commitment, responsiveness
and sense of humor and credit her with being crucial in preparing them for
the C.P.A. exam. Her teaching style is relaxed and confident, and she has
been instrumental in recruiting high caliber students to Ãå±±½ûµØT business
program.
Quote: ""What makes Linda such a wonderful teacher is
her capacity to help each student as an individual and to be giving and
demanding at the same time."--Business Professor Bernard Booms
Biography: B.A., psychology, Emory University, 1968; B.S., accounting,
Brenau University, 1985; M.B.A., Brenau University, 1985; D.B.A., philanthropy
and small business, Nova Southeastern University, 1995. | 