A group of College of Business alumni and friends from EY (Ernst & Young) awarded a gift of $128,000 to create scholarships for School of Accounting students. The EY Scholars Program provides support for undergraduate accounting students who intend to pursue a master’s degree in accounting. The scholarship is available beginning in students’ first year of undergraduate work through their graduate studies.
“We are elated with the new EY Scholarship,” said Ruth Ann McEwen, senior associate dean, College of Business and director, School of Accounting. “Our graduates at EY are global leaders in their field, and we are humbled by the gratitude and confidence in our school that they have shown through their ongoing support of this institution.”
The first set of scholarships were awarded in the Fall 2014 semester. Hector Tundidor (BAcc ’92), donor and managing partner of EY’s Miami office said, “This is our way of saying ‘thank you’ to an institution that gave us an excellent education that was fundamental in developing our careers.”
In addition to Tundidor, the donors included Steven J. Davis (BBA ’91, MBA ’93), Alvaro R. Flores (BBA ’88), Timothy P. LaMacchia (BBA ’85), Jose M. Martinez (BAcc’93), Mark A. Garces (BAcc ’98), Rick Gonzalez (BBA ’90), and EY partner Oscar Suarez, a former College of Business Dean’s Council member who now serves on the FIU Foundation Board of Directors.