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Culver-Stockton professor and student recognized by national business organization
Monday, January 28, 2013

A Culver-Stockton professor and student both received honors by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). Lisa Button, junior accounting and finance major from Adel, Iowa, has won the highest scholarship offered by the IMA and Dr. Dell Ann Janney was given the IMA Faculty Leadership Award.

Button has been awarded the Stuart Cameron and Margaret McLeod Memorial Scholarship (SCMS). The IMA annually awards the top participant in their scholarship competition with the prestigious SCMS for the amount of $5,000. The SCMS Scholarship winner also receives lodging, transportation, and registration costs for the Annual Conference & Exposition in June and the Student Leadership Conference in November. Button is a double major in Accounting and Finance and has maintained a 4.0 GPA while at C-SC. She serves as the president of the Culver-Stockton College IMA Student Chapter, and also serves as co-president of the Quincy Area Chapter of the IMA. Button is a teaching assistant and has served on the College’s Strategic Planning Committee and various search committees. In addition, she has worked as an intern at DOT Foods in Mt. Sterling, Ill.

Dr. Dell Ann Janney, CPA, is the recipient of the 2012 IMA Faculty Leadership Award. The IMA Faculty Leadership Award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated exemplary leadership and service to IMA. This includes supporting student participating in IMA, promoting IMA credentialing programs, writing for IMA publications, participating in IMA research, and educational activities.

Janney is a professor of accounting and the associate dean of experiential education at Culver-Stockton College. She has taught at the College for the past 20 years. Dr. Janney has dedicated many years to furthering IMA’s mission to student members. As an organizer of numerous IMA Student Leadership Conferences, Dr. Janney’s career includes service to IMA at the national, local, and regional levels serving on the National IMA’s Committee on Students, the Heartland Regional Council and as Past President of the Quincy Area Chapter. Janney established Culver-Stockton’s IMA student chapter and has served as faculty advisor for the past sixteen years. Culver-Stockton’s IMA student chapter has been recognized with numerous national chapter awards including the outstanding student chapter award as one of the top student chapters in the nation.

“It was a great honor to receive this award,” said Dr. Janney. “I have so appreciated the opportunity to serve IMA in a variety of ways and, in my role as faculty advisor, I have enjoyed helping students outside of a classroom setting.”