Undergraduate
Saint Michael's names experienced CPA/attorney, assistant professor of business administration & accounting
"I decided to do something that would encompass accounting and law," Mr. Farina said about deciding to teach.
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Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Francis J. Farina, attorney at law and certified public accountant, was named assistant professor of business administration and accounting at Saint Michael's College starting this fall semester. He was visiting assistant professor of accounting at Albright College in Reading, Pa., last year and has been a sole practitioner-attorney and CPA-since 1999.
"I decided to do something that would encompass accounting and law," Mr. Farina said about deciding to teach. "And I wanted to join a small liberal arts college with a good accounting program, like this one at Saint Michael's." He will be teaching auditing, federal taxation, and, in the spring term, accounting seminar, and in other terms, financial accounting and perhaps commercial law.
"My goal is to prepare students for the short and the long term, both for an accounting job, and for furthering their careers in the future, because there are many avenues that accounting opens up," Professor Farina said.
Mr. Farina was a senior accountant with Ernst & Young in Washington, DC, from 1975-1978; and director of internal audit and management analysis for Georgetown University in Washington from 1978 to 1986; deputy auditor, subsidiaries, Goldome Federal Savings Bank, Buffalo, N.Y., 1984-86; attorney at law, Chimicles, Jacobsen & Tikellis, Haverford, Pa., from 1986 to 1997, and Of Counsel Attorney with Berman, DeValerio & Pease, LLP, in Boston from 1997 to 1999.
Mr. Farina earned a bachelor of science in business administration from Suffolk University in 1973, an MBA degree from George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1974, and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington in 1983. He has been admitted to the bar in New York, Pennsylvania and various federal bars, is a certified public accountant in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania, and a certified bank auditor.
Outside of work, Mr. Farina has played tuba and euphonium for 40 years, including 14 years in the Washington Redskins NFL team 100-piece marching band. He has been a member of a number of other brass bands. He spent ten years coaching his children in Little League and leading their boy scout troops.
Mr. Farina and his wife Susan reside in Burlington. They have three children, Mark, 27, Julie, 23, and Emily 21.
Saint Michael's College is a distinctive Catholic liberal arts college that provides an education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools they need to lead a successful, purposeful life that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 371 Colleges, ranking as 9th among institutions in Quality of Life and 2nd in Town-Gown Relations. It is one of only 270 colleges and universities nationwide, and one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus. Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 250 graduate students and 100 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and its professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last nine years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Francis J. Farina, attorney at law and certified public accountant, was named assistant professor of business administration and accounting at Saint Michael's College starting this fall semester. He was visiting assistant professor of accounting at Albright College in Reading, Pa., last year and has been a sole practitioner-attorney and CPA-since 1999. "I decided to do something that would encompass accounting and law," Mr. Farina said about deciding to teach. "And I wanted to join a small liberal arts college with a good accounting program, like this one at Saint Michael's." He will be teaching auditing, federal taxation, and, in the spring term, accounting seminar, and in other terms, financial accounting and perhaps commercial law.
"My goal is to prepare students for the short and the long term, both for an accounting job, and for furthering their careers in the future, because there are many avenues that accounting opens up," Professor Farina said.
Mr. Farina was a senior accountant with Ernst & Young in Washington, DC, from 1975-1978; and director of internal audit and management analysis for Georgetown University in Washington from 1978 to 1986; deputy auditor, subsidiaries, Goldome Federal Savings Bank, Buffalo, N.Y., 1984-86; attorney at law, Chimicles, Jacobsen & Tikellis, Haverford, Pa., from 1986 to 1997, and Of Counsel Attorney with Berman, DeValerio & Pease, LLP, in Boston from 1997 to 1999.
Mr. Farina earned a bachelor of science in business administration from Suffolk University in 1973, an MBA degree from George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1974, and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington in 1983. He has been admitted to the bar in New York, Pennsylvania and various federal bars, is a certified public accountant in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania, and a certified bank auditor.
Outside of work, Mr. Farina has played tuba and euphonium for 40 years, including 14 years in the Washington Redskins NFL team 100-piece marching band. He has been a member of a number of other brass bands. He spent ten years coaching his children in Little League and leading their boy scout troops.
Mr. Farina and his wife Susan reside in Burlington. They have three children, Mark, 27, Julie, 23, and Emily 21.
Saint Michael's College is a distinctive Catholic liberal arts college that provides an education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools they need to lead a successful, purposeful life that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 371 Colleges, ranking as 9th among institutions in Quality of Life and 2nd in Town-Gown Relations. It is one of only 270 colleges and universities nationwide, and one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus. Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 250 graduate students and 100 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and its professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last nine years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns.
