Kathy Archer
Online Full Time Faculty
Education
  • Doctor of Business Administration
  • Bachelor of Arts in Journalism
  • Master of Business Administration
Programs Taught
  • Bridge (Master of Science in Accounting)
  • Bridge (Master of Science in Accounting with an Emphasis in Tax Compliance and Planning)
  • Bachelor of Science in Accounting
  • Bachelor of Science in Accounting with an Emphasis in Public Accounting
  • Bachelor of Science in Biology with an Emphasis in Pre-Pharmacy
Classes
  • ACC-250: Financial Accounting
  • ACC-502: Accounting Practices
  • DBA-885: Developing the Research Proposal
  • DBA-955: Dissertation I
  • DBA-960: Dissertation II
Research Interests
  • Economics, determinants of student success
  • Wage Inequailty
  • Determinants Of Student Performance In Online Accounting Classes
Publications
  • Ayella, A.; Bowman, R.; Decker, K.  (2012, October).  Proceedings from Campus Compact Heartland Conference 2012.  Impact of service-learning in personal set skills, academic performance and civic engagement. Retrieved from http://associations.missouristate.edu/assets/missouricompact/2012_Heartland_Program.pdf

  • Decker, K. & Zaharopoulos, D. (2013, November).  Proceedings from 19th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning. Why do online students fail accounting? Eskew & Faley model of student performance revisited. Retrieved from http://olc.onlinelearningconsortium.org/conference/2013/aln/welcome

  • Decker, K. K. (2016). Access or Value? Federal Student Loan Funding and Wage Inequality (Doctoral dissertation, GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY).

  •  Decker, K. K. (2016). Access or value? Federal student loan funding and wage inequality.  Canyon Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies4

  • Archer, Kathy K. and Olson, Mark, "Practice. Practice. Practice. Do Homework Management Systems Work?" (2017). SoTL Commons Conference. 9. http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2017/9

Presentations
  • SoTL Commons Conference
  • Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning
  • Campus Compact Heartland Conference
Awards
  • Certificate of Excellence for Research Excellence - 2018
  • Industry Leader Of The Year: October 2005 - 2005
  • Silver Quill Award 1997 for news and interpretive writing - 1997
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