Paul
Solomon
, PhD
Director of Accounting Programs
Department:
Business
Location:
Elliott House
201
Degrees
BS, University of Minnesota; MBA, DePaul University; PhD, University of Minnesota
Contact
Phone: 413.565.1094
Email: psolomon@baypath.edu
Profile
Paul Solomon has taught accounting at the college level for nearly 40 years. Presently, he is the Director of Accounting Programs at Bay Path College. Before accepting this new position, Paul was a full-time faculty member at Western New England College for two and one-half years. During the preceding ten years, he taught accounting as an adjunct professor, wrote a financial accounting textbook, and established a nationally recognized teaching conference for accounting professors, all while living in Sedona, Arizona. Before moving to Sedona, Paul was a tenured faculty member at San Jose State University where he taught for 19 years. His other faculty positions have been at DePaul University for 2 years--where he received his MBA--the University of Minnesota for 6 years--where he received his doctorate, and, Northern Arizona University for 3 years--where he served as an adjunct professor while living in Sedona. Paul’s professional experience includes positions at the General Accounting Office in both San Francisco and Washington D.C.; and staff/intern accountant positions in the Minneapolis offices of Touche Ross & Company (now Deloitte and Touche LLP), Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery (now Price Waterhouse & Coopers LLP), and Haskins and Sells (now Deloitte and Touche LLP).
Paul Solomon has a strong Midwest connection spending his first 18 years growing up in Aberdeen, South Dakota with most of his extended family living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Upon graduating from high school, he attended the University of Minnesota where he earned an undergraduate accounting degree. After completing his MBA degree from DePaul University in Chicago, he returned to Minneapolis where he worked both at Touche Ross & Company and as an evening instructor at the University of Minnesota. In 1974, he began his doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota and continued teaching there through 1978. He continues his connection with the Twin City area by his rabid support of University of Minnesota Gopher basketball and football, Vikings football, and Twins baseball (but his favorite baseball team is now the Boston Red Sox!).
Today Paul is best known among accounting professors across the U.S. as the founder and chair of the Colloquium on Change in Accounting Education (Colloquium), an international conference devoted to improving the quality of accounting education. While at San Jose State, he was the principal author of the Core Competency Model, a mainstream, user-oriented, active learning, competency-based first course in accounting and chaired for 10 years a conference that became known as the California Colloquium on Accounting Education. He has long been active in the American Accounting Association (AAA) and, as an individual, established the Colloquium. These initiatives to champion change in accounting education earned him the AAA’s 1998 Innovation in Accounting Education Award.
Paul is most proud of the following accomplishments:
- Author of Financial Accounting: A New Perspective, McGraw-Hill/Irwin Publishing
- Recipient, 1998 Innovation in Accounting Education Award, American Accounting Association (AAA)--An Individual's Initiative to Champion the Directives of the Accounting Education Change Commission
- Recipient, 1995 Faculty Excellence Award, California Society of CPAs
- Success of the Colloquium on Change in Accounting Education, soon to be in its twelfth year
