Robins School accounting professor named Virginia winner in U.S. Professors of the Year competition
November 26, 2007
Joe Hoyle, associate professor of accounting at the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business, has been selected the Virginia winner in the U.S. Professors of the Year competition, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Higher Education.
Hoyle was selected for the honor from more than 300 top professors in the country, nominated by their colleges and universities. Winners were chosen from 40 states and the District of Columbia in several rounds of competition conducted by the Carnegie Endowment and CASE.
Hoyle has been previously honored for his Socratic method of teaching accounting, which students say is demanding, but ultimately highly effective preparation for the profession. He recently published a free online guide to teaching college, which has won praise and recognition in higher education. After reading the guide, James Lang, a columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education, said Hoyle "was someone who not only cared deeply about teaching, but also had spent a career thinking about it and taking it seriously."
BusinessWeek magazine has named Hoyle one of 22 Favorite Undergraduate Business Professors nationally, and he is winner of the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. He also is the author of an advanced accounting textbook, now in its eighth printing.
In supporting Hoyle's nomination, Heather Michelle Rice, a former student, said Hoyle "taught us accounting, but more importantly, he educated us on how to be successful in the world whether it was about developing a strong work ethic, never becoming complacent, pushing ourselves to reach our full potential or just finding that passion that drives us each and every day."
CASE and the Carnegie Foundation have been partners in offering Professors of the Year since 1981. TIAA-CREF, one of America's leading financial services organizations and higher education's premier retirement system, became the primary sponsor for the awards ceremony in 2000. Additional support for the program is received from a number of higher education associations, including Phi Beta Kappa.