C. David Billings, Ph.D.

C. David Billings, Ph.D.

Professor of Finance

Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness

Office: Madison Hall Room 212
Phone: 256.824.6977
Fax: 256.824.6841
Email: David.Billings@uah.edu

Education

University of Missouri at Columbia, Ph.D.
Missouri State University (formerly Southwest Missouri State University), B.S.

Specialty Areas

  • Business accreditation
  • Business school outreach
  • Academic/industrial partnerships
  • Government Financial Management
  • Systems analysis

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations

Dr. Billings served as dean of the College from 1981 to 2008.

He received the Huntsville Rotary Club Vocational Excellence Award. He has been named to Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, and Who's Who in the World.

Dr. Billings served from 1981 to 2008 on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Small Business Development Consortium.

Dr. Billings has served as a session chair and presenter at meetings of AACSB-International and the Southern Business Administration Association. He served as the founding Convening Dean of the AACSB-International's Metropolitan Business Schools Affinity Group during 1998 - 2003.

Dr. Billings serves on the AACSB Pre-Accreditation Committee and previously served on the Candidacy Committee. During 2000- 01 he served as the editor for the revision of the AACSB Pre-candidacy/Candidacy Manual. He has served as a facilitator for AACSB's Business Accreditation Seminar, Accreditation Reviewer Training Seminar and Maintenance of Accreditation Seminar. He has assisted schools with accreditation as a peer review team chair, continuing review team chair, merger monitoring team chair, business accreditation advisor, candidacy liaison, pre-candidacy advisor, pre-accreditation mentor, pre-accreditation liaison, accreditation workshop presenter, and accreditation consultant. Dave has provided accreditation assistance to more than 50 schools inside and outside the U.S.

Dr. Billings served as editor of State and Local Government Review for six years. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in finance. He has served on Ph. D. committees in economics, finance, public administration, and real estate. He has been the principal investigator on several federal grants and contracts.

Selected Publications from More than 60 Publications

  • "Faculty Intellectual Contributions under the new AACSB International Accreditation Standards (with Allan D. Spritzer), Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences (13.1 Fall 2005) pp. 46 - 64.
  • "Developing Partnerships Between Industry and Academia," (with William E. Souder). Product and Process Innovation . Volume I (November/December 1991)pp. 8-14.
  • "Topics for Cost Analysis 2000 Plan." Washington: U.S. Army Cost and Economic Analysis Center (July 1990).
  • "Career Management of Technical Personnel." Washington: U.S. Army Cost and Economic Analysis Center (July 1989).
  • "Rationale for Applying Learning Curves for Standard Militarized Commodities." Washington: U.S. Army Cost and Economic Analysis Center (June 1988).
  • "Economic Analysis of the Acquisition Strategy for the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radar System (SINCGARS) Program." Washington: U.S. Army Cost and Economic Analysis Center (July 1987).
  • "Assessing the Role of Business Schools in the Market for New Economics Ph.D.'s," (with Rudolph A. White and Robert D. Brown, Jr.). The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 12, pp. 34-44, 1981.
  • "The Prospects for MBA Enrollments, 1978-1990," (with Rudolph A. White). Journal of Management , Vol. 4, pp. 33-45, 1978.
  • "Factors Affecting Educational Opportunity and Their Implications for School Finance Reform: An Empirical Study," (with John Legler). Journal of Law and Education , Vol. 4, pp. 633-640, October 1975.
  • "Differential Tax Incidence of State Educational Grant-In-Aid Programs in Iowa: A Correction," (with Andy Sherbo, Jr.). National Tax Journal , Vol. 27, pp. 663-667, December 1974.
  • "Empirical Evidence of Economics of Scale in Education as a Justification of Differentials in Expenditures per Student," (with John Legler). Journal of Law and Education , Vol. 2, pp. 667-671, October 1973.
  • Cost Evaluation of SAM-D. Washington: Office, Comptroller of the Army, August 1969 (Secret).

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