(December 5, 2006) What’s Wrong with the Learning Process in Stats? "Claims by members of the AACSB Team (e.g., George Carter) that the CoB’s undergraduates are deficient in statistics knowledge have been the subject of other reports posted to USMPRIDE.COM in the past. Our investigators have collected some grade history data from that yield valuable insights into that perceived problem. With regard to the accuracy of the grade data, the pickaprof website offers the following statement:...".
(December 6, 2006) Dr. Carter's Response to Dr. Exline's Teaching Policy "...(4) Policy: The last bullet: “Department chairs may elect to release faculty members from teaching for administrative duties, to develop a research proposal, or to work on a major service project with approval of the dean and provost.” is too restrictive. The sentence should be, “Department chairs may elect to release faculty members from teaching duties for any of a variety of other professional responsibilities with the approval of the dean and provost...”
(January 4, 2007) The Apology That Was Not "On Saturday, December 23, 2006, Dr. George Carter, Chairman of EFIB, sent an email to the EFIB Department with copies to the deans and other chairs in the CoB. The email is addressed to “Dean Doty” and pretends to be an apology. The email accomplishes several things, but acting as an apology is not one of them. That is a personal problem for Dr. Carter and Dean Doty. What it does do bears further examination...".
(January 5, 2007) Why Carter May Stay For A Little While "A recent post stated many reasons why George Carter (a/k/a Dr. Cut-and-Paste) must go from his position as Chairman of the EFIB Department. That is the logical and practical approach; therefore, like most CoB practices of the last few years, it probably will not happen. Reasons why Chairman Carter will stay at least through this contract year:..". Click here for the complete article.
(January 5, 2007) New CoB T-Shirts Available Soon
(January 8, 2007) (Updated January 19, 2007) Tracing the Path to Now: Looking Back at George Carter’s Misguided Actions "The following timeline traces the academic career of EFIB Chair George Carter.The blue font above the line traces out Carter’s employment record, while the various colored fonts below the line shows the sequence of questionable events that are part of Carter’s tenure at UM (or at the IHL)...".
(January 9, 2007) On Transgressions "What makes a “transgression”? Committing an error, having a lapse in judgment, overstepping authority or proprieties, or other wrongdoing – that is what a transgression is. Chairman Carter said he committed a transgression against Dean Doty and asked him to forgive him for it. Confession and repentance is a proper approach. What about the other – and similar – transgressions against others inthe CoB?...".
(January 11, 2007) And then Who? "Once Chairman Carter is no longer an administrator, who will replace him? It surely must be someone from within since, given the stockpile of economists, there cannot be an available line to hire a new chairman. Here are the EFIB faculty members available from which to select (afterthe n ew guys, in alphabetical order [excluding Farhang Niroomand, AssociateDean): "
(January 13, 2007) Above Your Pay Grade? Military men (and women) often use expressions that reflect their experience in the military. One such expression is “That’s above your [my, our] pay grade.” This saying is used to indicate that the recipient of the statement has no business involving himself or herself in whatever “that” is. This particular expression has been (over)used by EFIB Chair George Carter through the years as part of his crusade to create a culture of detached submission among rank and file faculty, but the concept is supported by almost all administrators in the CoB.
(January 18, 2007) Developing Story -- HATTIESBURG "Sources tell usmpride.com News that the EFIB’s search for a new Director for the CoB’s Center for Economics Education may now be inviolation of federal hiring guidelines/rules as set out by the EEOC...".
(January 18, 2007) No More Dr. Nice Guy "Management professor Stephen Bushardt once remarked to a then-CBA colleague that “if you don’t like George Carter, then there’s something wrong with you.” That was years ago, in the time just after Carter resigned as chair of the economics department in the late 1990s. Since hearing of this statement back in those days - a statement that has become conventional CBA wisdom over the years - I have thought little about it. However, events of the past few weeks and months that have been reported by this website have me thinking about that statement again...".
(January 19, 2007) As Transgressions go By "Chairman (DCP) Carter is not one to learn much from the past, including autogenous mistakes; one might think given the nature of recent mistakes - transgressions - including a semi-public apology for one, he might be somewhat more careful. One conclusion is DCP lives his life sprinting from one visceral reaction to another. React, do not think...".
(February 6, 2007) George Carter to the Untenured: "Vote for Option III" Near the end of the 19 September 2006 "Black Tuesday" faculty governance re-vote meeting in the EFIB, Chairman George Carter put the options facing the faculty on the table. A rhetorical question was then asked by finance professor Tom Lindley. Carter did not waste the opportunity to answer that rhetorical question from Lindley. In doing so, Carter was effectively telling the EFIB's 10 untenured professors how to vote.
(December 4, 2006) The CoB’s Race to Implement Online Instruction A Look Back at George Carter’s Fall 2005 EFIB-L Conversation "In an e-mail to EFIB Faculty dated 6-Dec-05, EFIB Chair George Carter began a philosophical discussion of online education. The text of Carter’s exposition follows: From: Carter Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 7:46 AM To: KingE; EFIB-L Subject: RE: My Thoughts On Online - Tom Lindley To EFIB-L: My thanks to Ernie for posting this and to Tom for stating issues that are of EFIB concern...".
(November 29, 2006) CoB Public Service Announcement for Mississippi Consulting Group, Inc.
(November 28, 2006) A Jury of Your Peers? An Investigation into the CoB Advisory Committee’s Role in the Grievance Process "This report takes a look at the CoB Advisory Committee’s role in the Faculty Grievance process. This subject has sparked interest in usmpride.com readers since the filing of two separate Grievances in recent weeks - one by professors Marc DePree and Tom Lindley, and another by professor Franklin Mixon. Both of these Grievances were initiated against the actions of EFIB Chair George Carter, and the details of both are available at usmpride.com...".
(November 28, 2006) A Reader’s Viewpoint Harold Doty’s response to Frank Mixon’s grievance has been finalized, delivered, and publicized, and, as expected, serves to provide more evidence that Doty either doesn’t or won’t “get it”. Doty has once again relied on his self-created “minimal sufficiency” doctrine with respect to the USM Faculty Handbook and has simultaneously displayed his usual dislike for facts.
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(March 19, 2007) Oops! . . . He’s Doing it Again EFIB Chairman George Carter to Offer Preferential Summer Salaries Again in 2007 "About eight months ago, usmnews.net broke the story of preferential summer salaries (2006) in the CoB. The primary beneficiaries of these summer 2006 teaching deals were economics professors Edward Nissan, who taught 2 courses for full-time summer pay, and Charles Sawyer, who taught 1 course for half-time summer pay. These and other teaching deals that were concocted during the summer of 2006 are described in more detail in an installment of the “CoBscam . . .” series, available in the archives section at usmnews.net...".
(March 20, 2007) More Details on Carter’s Private Sector Shingle “Sources have provided usmnews.net with another batch of information related to EFIB Chairman George Carter’s use of USM facilities for work in his private sector consulting firm. Tips from sources led usmnews.net reporters to the temporary website for the private sector company Forensic Economics Corporation. As the screen insert below states, FEC is a New Orleans-based company that has been temporarily relocated to Baton Rouge due to the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina…”.
(March 24, 2007) Night Court? "Readers of usmpride.com are now familiar with allegations regarding EFIB Chair George Carter’s use of USM facilities in the operation of his private business concern, Mississippi Consulting Group, Inc. A recent installment in this Special Report series entitled "Conveniently Located" provided documentation (obtained through the MORA) about this matter. USM counsel Lee Gore used that documentation to argue that Carter's use of USM facilities to operate his consulting concern met and/or surpassed guidelines of "acceptable use." The previous report indicated that there is no language within the IHL guidelines for University counsel to make "acceptable use" judgments...".
(April 3, 2007) When Carter was Green over Green “…Green had been vindicated, but at what cost? Carter has never been able to produce scholarship like that produced by Green in the 1980s. Green has not been able to replicate his scholarly accomplishments of the 1980s. Some would say that a promising young career was upended before it had a real chance to blossom, and at the hands of a failed academicturned- administrator. Stories such as this one are all-too-common in USM’s College of Business. Too many careers have abruptly ended, and too many lives have been damaged as a result.”
(January 4, 2007) Dr. Cut-and-Paste "George Carter, Chairman of the EFIB Department, and self-professed Mr. Ethics, has now added a new title to his collection: Dr. Cut-and-Paste (DCP). When he has been producing or forwarding anything to the department or college of late, he has been frequently using the cut (or copy) and paste method of production. Efficient and effective you say? Sure, if it is his own work on which he is relying...".
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