Students at the University of Northern Iowa gain fulfilling experiences and valuable real-world skills through their work with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program at the Wilson College of Business. This program, which has been aiding taxpayers for fifty years, allows accounting students to become certified tax preparers, helping community members file their taxes under faculty supervision.
As president of the Heartlanders, Matt Getz is responsible for running a multi-million dollar organization. He uses skills learned as a UNI student to do it.
Meet Julia Slayden, Mae Franklin, and Ron TeKippe, siblings from Rickardsville, Iowa, who became first-generation college graduates and CPAs. They've created the TeKippe Accounting Scholarship at UNI to support accounting students who, like them, are working hard to pay for their education.
After completing graduate school in 2014, UNI alum Nathan Klyn knew his background qualified him to analyze data for a company – he just didn’t know exactly what industry suited him best.
