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Faculty provide the academic support.
Applications are reviewed by an independent selection committee, composed of three eminent accounting educators. Since its inception in 1956, the program has assisted approximately 900 doctoral students to complete their dissertations and go on to teaching and research in accounting. The Doctoral Fellowship Guidelines are available in Adobe PDF format. The award, offered since 1979, is named in honor of the late John R. Wildman, who was a partner in the firm, a professor of accounting at New York University, and the first president of the American Association of Accounting Instructors, which later became the American Accounting Association.