Dr. Karen Collins is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. She has a Ph.D. in accounting from Virginia Tech. In addition to teaching Intermediate Accounting, Karen coordinates the college's freshman-level Introduction to Business course. Her innovative textbook, Exploring Business, is an outgrowth of this successful Introduction to Business course. She is regularly asked to speak to faculty groups about her innovative approach to this course, and why it has been so successful at Lehigh over the past decade.
Karen's research interests include upward mobility of women in accounting, stress, quality of life issues, and ethnic diversity in the accounting profession. She has published articles in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy, Journal of Vocational Behavior and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Karen has won numerous teaching awards while at Lehigh, including the Deming Lewis Faculty Award (for faculty member who had the strongest influence on the ten year graduating class), in 2003; the Faculty Recognition Award (from the Dean of Student’s Office) also in 2003; and the Andersen Consulting Faculty Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, 1998-99 and 1999-2000.