b'Endowed Professorship AnnouncementNew Professorship Honors Directors Impact at MizzouBy Ryan Owens of the top programs in the country, Choi said. A donors investment in education will pay dividends forTrulaske College of Business interim dean Chris Robert Mizzou and the Trulaske College of Business for years toexplained that this new professorship meshes perfectly with come.the vision for the future of the School of Accountancy and The donor, who chose to remain anonymous, made a $1.1the college as a whole.million gift to create the Vairam Arunachalam DistinguishedThis gift marks the continuation of a very special part-Professor of Accountancy, University of Missouri Presidentnership between our college and this donor, ensuring that Mun Choi announced at an event Friday. The positionTrulaske continues to offer an outstanding, well-rounded, holder must demonstrate commitment to teaching, service,global business educationand that we can attract and citizenship and outreach to students with a preference to aretain the most talented faculty members to provide it, he non-tenure track professor. The inaugural position holdersaid.will be named in fall 2022.The School of Accountancy has touched the lives of so Our non-tenure track faculty are invaluable, and this newmany students, and with this gift, it will continue to do so for professor will uphold the renowned quality expected fromgenerations to come. Accountancy graduate student Jillian Accountancy program, Choi said. Were investing in ourRosenkranz explained just how much her time at Mizzou future as part of our MizzouForward initiative, and thatwas enriched by her encounters with faculty and hopes for includes giving our students every opportunity and resourcethe same for future students. they need to succeed. A centerpiece of those efforts is theMy accountancy professors were the reason for my recruitment and retention of world-class faculty.success, she said. The passion for teaching they exuded The professorship honors Arunachalam, the longtimewas evident. They didnt shy away from challenging us with director of the School of Accountancy in the Trulaskerigorous material, but through it all, they provided us every College of Business. His leadership has seen the programresource we needed to succeed. This is when I realized that reach remarkable heights. joining the accountancy program here at Mizzou is what Vairam made accountancy education his lifes work, and inwould make the difference for my education. his decades at Mizzou, hes worked tirelessly as director ofStory courtesy of Mizzou Alumni and Donor Communication and the Mizzou Accountancy program to ensure its status as oneMarketing2022 Newsmagazine 63'