Robert Darville

Background

About Robert Darville

Dr. Robert Darville came to Shorter University in 1985 as Assistant Professor of Accounting. Dr. Darville began his career in 1976 as Assistant Professor of Accounting at Columbus State University (Columbus, GA), having graduated from Millsaps College (Jackson, MS) with a BA in Accounting and the MBA, with a concentration in Accounting, from Mississippi State University in 1976. Dr. Darville served Louisiana College as Assistant Professor of Accounting (1982-1983) and Highlands Baptist Church as Church Administrator and Minister of Education (1983-1984). He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister and holds the CPA certification (GA). Dr. Darville currently serves Shorter University as Dean, Robert H. Ledbetter College of Business and as a tenured full professor, while holding the Sewell Chair of Business Ethics. He completed his PhD at Georgia State University in His program of study consisted with two areas of concentration: Higher Education and Accounting. Dr. Darville’s dissertation research concentrated on how the culture of a liberal arts institution affected the budgeting policy and procedures at that type of institution. Although he has served primarily teaching institutions, his research and teaching interest is in the Cost/Managerial Accounting arena. Secondarily, his PhD work in higher education serves as a backdrop for research in governance and students. Dr. Darville’s administrative strengths of growing and rebuilding programs are the result of his visionary and people-oriented personality. Enabling others to achieve is his focus.