(August 17, 2006) The Ethics Professor and the Company Man "Carter’s quotes illustrate a common problem among CoB administrators, and indeed USM administrators in general. The common problem is that these individuals follow the precept that “As long as it’s not clearly against the rules, it’s not unethical.” Of course, all should be aware of the differences between “illegal” and “unethical,” but no set of rules is free of vagueness and loopholes, two openings that the “rule follower” culture seems to exploit incessantly. One only has to look as far as the CoB Management Team’s perversion of the 2006 merit raise process to see what “principled administrators” who “follow rules” can do to a strategically crafted framework."
(September 17, 2006) Developing Story HATTIESBURG --- New details are emerging on the story that usmpride.com broke yesterday concerning the sudden and quiet departure of newly hired Scholar-in-Residence Ray Canterbery. Sources today confirmed that George Carter, the Chair of EFIB and the CoB administrator who brought Canterbery to USM, informed Professor Frank Mixon at about noon on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, that he (Mixon) was to take over Canterbery’s ECO 672 course on Tuesday, September 19, 2006, the fourth class meeting of the semester. As it is being reported to us, Carter then departed from his office for the remainder of the afternoon, thus adding Wednesday afternoon to a planned 4-day weekend wedding trip that was to take place from September 14-17, 2006.
CoB Confidential, Part 4 (8/4/06)(updated 8/17/06) (updated 8/22/06) "We were sent an example of some of the details that CoB administrators provide to their faculty via email and other forms of communication. We thought it would be instructive to share with our readers the following emails written by EFIB Chair George Carter on 9/29/2005 and sent to the 19 members of his department.
(September 21, 2006) usmpride.com News . . . . THE FIRST REPORT ON BLACK TUESDAY "As reported earlier at usmpride.com, EFIB Chair George Carter distributed an e-mail to all EFIB faculty on 18 September 2006 indicating that a faculty meeting was to be held at 12:30pm on 19 September 2006. Investigators at usmpride.com have obtained a copy of Carter’s memo, which was three sentences in length. That memo [says]: There will be a faculty meeting at 12:30pm in room JGH 109 on Tuesday, September 19, 2006. I will read a prepared statement to which the faculty will react. Please plan to attend this important faculty meeting."
(September 22, 2006) Black Tuesday in the CoB: A Call for Sanctions "... Despite telling CoB faculty that he lacked all of the details about the EFIB meeting/decision, his e-mail to the CoB contains a copy of an e-mail Doty sent earlier to Jay Grimes, wherein Doty attempts to describe the situation regarding EFIB’s faculty governance as if he (Doty) were actually in the meeting. In it Doty provides his opinion on every detail, beginning with his support of Carter’s rationale for resigning, and including his own opinion about how the Faculty Handbook was intended to handle a situation such as the one that took place in the EFIB on September 19, 2006.
Doty’s statement about not finding reason to “over-rule the will of the majority” is despicable, in that Carter’s ploy on September 19, 2006 over-ruled the will of the majority from the original EFIB meeting on August 29, 2006. Thus, Doty’s actions were against the spirit of the USM Handbook and deserve a sanction from the Provost, the President, the USM Faculty Senate, and the USM AAUP."
Doty’s statement about not finding reason to “over-rule the will of the majority” is despicable, in that Carter’s ploy on September 19, 2006 over-ruled the will of the majority from the original EFIB meeting on August 29, 2006. Thus, Doty’s actions were against the spirit of the USM Handbook and deserve a sanction from the Provost, the President, the USM Faculty Senate, and the USM AAUP."
(September 22, 2006) Carter's Coup: 2 1/2 days in the Making "... EFIB Chair George Carter resigned from the elected 3-person governance committee in a way that circumvented the department’s right to an Option 2 governance structure. In doing so, Carter may have violated the Faculty Handbook, which, as some would suggest, is something he’s done in the past (e.g., the Trellis Green lawsuit). It seems worthwhile to consider an additional twist to this particular story. It is now well-documented that Carter was missing in action for the second half of the work week of September 11-15, 2006. Carter took the afternoon of 9/13 off, and was missing entirely on 9/14 and 9/15 of 2006. Although it was reportedly due to a wedding trip, consider the possibility that Carter, the “company man,” took 2½ days of company time to plan his 9/19 coup. ..."
(September 22, 2006) The Ethics Mall of America In his top-down, “rewards and punishments” model of ethical development, Professor Carter says we should look to CoB leadership as models for guidance in our endeavors at USM and in academia. The CoB administrative team has grown a lot over the past few years, and Carter’s ethics recipe doesn’t exactly specify whose ethics are to be emulated. Given the lack of direction in Carter’s model, we are left on our own to do a little “ethics shopping” from CoB administrators, past and present.
(September 22, 2006) A Reaction to Dr. Carter’s “Prepared Statement” to EFIB Dr. Carter says: 'The 45 Minutes document showed us that certain individuals are writing about public faculty information in an uncomplimentary, derisive, and hurtful manner." The researcher says: "The last time we checked, Farhang Niroomand is paid more than is Corky Palmer. We can criticize Palmer for losing a game but we can’t say anything about Niroomand spending tens of thousands of taxpayers’ dollars in a wasteful manner?..."
(September 27, 2006) George Carter & Another Bad Decision - Minitab Statistical Software "A document obtained from a CoB Assessment Committee member by usmpride researchers indicates that one “Perceived Problem” in the CoB’s assessment is that CoB students have “Poor Statistical Skills.” The “Corrective Action” to be taken is that the CoB will “Use Minitab For All Statistics Classes.” According to our source, the “Data Source” for this “Perceived Problem” is George Carter, [illegitimate] EFIB chair, self-proclaimed ethicist and statistics expert. Upon what is the decision to use Minitab based? Apparently (and sadly), the answer is Carter’s professional judgment. "
(September 28, 2006) Carter’s Minitab Two-Step The recent revelation that George Carter has declared that use of Minitab will be the solution to the CoB’s perceived learning problems in statistics is yet another crack in the foundation of Carter’s ethics cover. This one is special because it involves the AACSB accreditation process, and it goes to show that Carter will say and do anything to help the second floor gang’s attempt to create the appearance of caring about the quality of the CoB’s educational services. If you wanted examples of how they are “making stuff up,” here’s one. Just thinking about this one causes laughter.
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