Students Choose 2024 KSOM Professor of the Year
For the fourth time in five years, student members of The University of Scranton’s Business Club have named Ashley L. Stampone, Ph.D., ’10, G’11, PHD’22, assistant professor in the Accounting Department, as the Kania School of Management Professor of the Year.
A three-time graduate of The University of Scranton, Dr. Stampone previously won the business school’s top teaching award in 2022, 2021 and 2020. Last year, Dr. Stampone was named Accounting Department Teacher of the Year Award.
Dr. Stampone not only teaches, she serves as the faculty advisor for the University’s Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) student chapter – a group repeatedly recognized as among the five most outstanding student chapters in the nation.
Since joining the faculty in 2016, Dr. Stampone has garnered numerous state and national awards and professional honors. In 2019, she was given the IMA’s Faculty Leadership Award, a national prize bestowed to an educator who has demonstrated significant leadership. In 2021, she won IMA’s Ursel K. Albers IMA Campus Advocate of the Year Award, which recognizes a campus advocate/student chapter advisor who has made significant contributions to the IMA and student members in particular.
Dr. Stampone has also received the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Young Leaders Award and was named among the “Top 20 Under 40” by the Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal.
Before teaching, Dr. Stampone worked as an internal auditor for QVC, Inc., as a senior financial systems analyst for Bridon American Corporation, as an inventory accountant for International Salt Company and as a staff accountant for ParenteBeard, LLC.
Dr. Stampone, who resides in Old Forge, earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting, an MBA and her Ph.D. from the University.
In addition to Dr. Stampone, the business club students presented awards to several other faculty members for 2024.
Last year’s Professor of the Year, David Mahalak, D. Eng., a faculty specialist, was awarded the Department of Operations and Analytics 2024 Teacher of the Year Award. John A. Ruddy, DPS, CFA, CPA , an associate economics professor, was named the 2024 Department of Finance, Economics, and International Business Teacher of the Year. Daniel Mahoney, Ph. D. was named the 2024 Department of Accounting Teacher of the Year. And, Robert L. McKeage, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the University’s Business Leadership Honors Program, was named 2024 Teacher of the Year in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship.