Over the past six years, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business and the
Foundation for Accounting Education of the New York State Society
of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) have partnered to offer
an invaluable learning experience to minority high school juniors
in the Queens area through their Career Opportunities in the
Accounting Profession (COAP) program.
“The COAP program here at St. John’s has been a
great success,” says Mark Ulrich, CPA, director of
the Center for Accounting Research and Technology and adjunct
assistant professor at Tobin College of Business. He is also the
chair of the COAP St. John's Advisory Board and president of the
Queens/Brooklyn Chapter of the NYSSCPA. “Through COAP, students
get an edge in learning about the tremendous opportunity in the
accounting profession, succeeding in college and developing their
soft skills. We now have an alumni base of over 150 students,
many of which are already working at big firms or are studying
accounting at major universities.”
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