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FACULTY AND COLLEGE NEWS
Professor Al Frakes Retires
after 34 Years at WSU
After three decades of service
to the University, Al Frakes
retired in May 2006. Frakes has
educated thousands of students
in a number of accounting
subjects; for 16 years he was the
sole instructor for the undergraduate
and graduate courses
in auditing. He has also taught
accounting theory, intermediate
accounting I and II, principles
of financial accounting for the
business core, introductory
accounting for MBA students,
and CPA review classes.
Al Frakes
Frakes is a master teacher who
set high expectations for his students. Their appreciation
for his dedication, care, and concern is shown in the
numerous college and departmental teaching awards he
received during his career, including the Beta Alpha Psi
Outstanding Teacher Award, and the College’s Outstanding
Faculty Service Award.
Frakes grew up in Arcata, California, on northern
California’s Redwood Coast. He graduated from Humboldt
State University in 1962, with a bachelor’s degree in
business administration and earned an MBA in 1964 with
an emphasis in accounting from the University of California,
Berkeley. From 1964 to 1967 he worked for the public
accounting firm of Haskins and Sells (now Deloitte) and
became a certified public accountant. In 1967, Humboldt
State persuaded him to return and teach in their business
department. After two years at Humboldt, he enrolled in
the University of Washington’s doctorate program and
joined Washington State University in 1972.
Frakes has been widely published in national journals
on various aspects of accounting education. Frakes served
as chair of the curriculum committee for the College and
the department, and recently wrote the department’s
Framework for Assessment, providing a long-term
blueprint to guide the department’s future actions and
decisions.
Frakes’ plans for retirement revolve around traveling,
fishing, and spending more time with his wife Joan
and their family. He can be reached via e-mail at frakes@
pullman.com.
—caitlin devlin
New Faculty Fellowship
Brings Intellectual Property
Issues to Students
The newest faculty fellowship in the College of
Business addresses a topic of increasing importance to
entrepreneurs and researchers worldwide: intellectual
property. Lewis Lee (’88 Business Administration, ’88
Electrical Engineering) and Dan Hayes (’83 Electrical
Engineering) created the Lee & Hayes, PLLC
Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship to drive
the CB’s delivery of critical information on this topic
to business and engineering students.
As intellectual property attorneys, Lee and Hayes
work with entrepreneurs at all stages of the innovation
cycle. “We’ve found that IP is a key component
involving most startups, especially those that have
a technology component,” says Lee. “IP issues are
becoming more important to companies as we shift
to an idea-focused economy. It’s something well-educated
students should understand.”
Lee and Hayes became interested in the idea of a
fellowship two years ago after watching former CB
Dean Len Jessup work to grow the College’s Center
for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) and engage engineering
students in business programs. The fellowship has
been awarded to CB Associate Dean and Director of
International and Entrepreneurial Initiatives Jerman
Rose, who leads the CES and teaches a cross-listed
entrepreneurship course for business and engineering
students.
“We deal with entrepreneurs all the time; in some
aspects we think of ourselves as entrepreneurs,” says
Lee of their firm Lee & Hayes, PLLC. “We wanted to
help give students the knowledge they will need to
begin to address the issues that entrepreneurs face.”
Fellowships Awarded in 2005–2006
Bintong Chen, Professor, Management and Operations
Suprateek Sarker, Associate Professor, International Business
Donna Paul, Assistant Professor, Finance
Swaminathan Kalpathy, Assistant Professor, Finance
Jerman Rose, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs
Parachini Fellowship
Parachini Fellowship
Redmond Fellowship
Redmond Fellowship
lee & Hayes, PLLC Faculty Fellowship
in Entrepreneurship
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