The HistoryMakers video oral history with Alexander Gabbin.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 7 min., 35 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337307
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Alexander Gabbin
Alexander Gabbin
Other authors / contributors:Gabbin, Alexander L., interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Recorded Harrisonburg, Virginia 2017 June 15.
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Summary:Professor Alexander Gabbin was born on September 6, 1945 in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his B.A. degree in economics from Howard University in Washington D.C. in 1967. He received his M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1970, and his Ph.D. degree in accounting from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1986. Gabbin began his teaching career in 1975 at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania as an associate professor in the department of economics and business administration. He was hired at James Madison University in 1985, where he would become the director of the school of accounting in 1994, and the program director of the school of professional studies from 1997 to 1998. In 2013, Gabbin was made a KPMG professor of accounting. In addition to teaching, Gabbin published a variety of articles summarizing his accounting research, and was a cofounder of the National Black MBA Association in 1970.