Things are Going to change

Rock, Paper, Scissors -- Rock! How Hiring (and Firing) in the EFIB has Gone off of the Rails (May 1, 2007) "Recently, a USMNEWS.NET report indicated that a report on hiring in the EFIB was forthcoming. That report has since morphed into a series, out of which this is Part I. This installment in the series details the chaotic human resources situation on the economics side of the EFIB since EFIB Chair George Carter (see below) re-assumed the reigns of the department in August of 2005...".

Rock, Paper, Scissors -- Rock! How Hiring (and Firing) in the EFIB has Gone off of the Rails (May 30, 2007) "Recently, a USMNEWS.NET report indicated that a report on hiring in the EFIB was forthcoming. That report has since morphed into a series, out of which this is Part II. This installment in the series details the chaotic human resources situation on the economics side of the EFIB since EFIB Chair George Carter (see below) re-assumed the reigns of the department in August of 2005...".

Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball? (July 31, 2007) The most common question CoB faculty have asked, after being informed about the enormous raises awarded (in 2007) to new CoB faculty Sami Dakhlia (assistant professor of economics) and Akbar Marvasti (associate professor of economics), has been: What did they do? The following analysis shows the likely motivation behind such a question.

Over 40 Seared (December 6, 2007) "The recent Special Report entitled 'Carter’s Targets: A Compendium' may have shocked some usmnews.net readers. It showed that there have been over 40 “victims” of EFIB chairman George Carter’s malicious tongue in recent years...".

The Apology That Was Not (December 31, 2006) "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...". For more on the troubled history of ECO, click here.

(December 16, 2009) Things are Going to Change Around Here "Dear Accounting Colleagues, I met with Director Hughes a few days ago and that’s what he said: He 'jumped on this train as the train is already moving down the track.' But, be clear, now that the economists are gone, '[t]hings are going to change around here.'...".

(December 17, 2009) "Dear Accounting Colleagues, You insisted on including The CPA Journal, Journal of Accountancy, Strategic Finance, and similar journals in the A section of CoB’s Journal Rankings, not to mention the vanity pubs you've elevated to B and C status like the Journal of Applied Business Research or Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives (Oops, no "accounting" in the titles-see previous edition of "Things are going to change…" They don’t count.)...".

(December 21, 2009) "Dear Rod, I bring sad tidings on this holiday. 'Things are going to change around here' and your research and service efforts are not accounting. Your annual evaluation will suffer…. well, let's look at the details before we get to your annual evaluation…".

(December 23, 2009) “I’m not going to commit.”

Question: What is it that School of Accountancy Director Skip Hughes is “not going to commit” to?

Answer: The College of Business and USM Faculty Handbooks.

(January 12, 2010) Is the AACSB "Smoking Dope?" Dear Accounting Colleagues,To sum up Director Hughes’ 'feelings' about research, 'if you aim as high as you can and accounting is in the title of the journal, I think that you would be safe.'..."

(January 18, 2010) It’s Your Academic Integrity Policy, Now "Dear Skip, We tried years ago to have a dialogue with SoA/CoB/USM administrators, now chronicled in “Without Proper Citation.” It was and continues to be an education/learning opportunity...".

(March 23, 2010) Deck the Hall Tree: A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler "New CoB accounting director, Kirby E. “Skip” Hughes, joined the CoB this year from Louisiana State University. When he arrived in Hattiesburg from LSU’s E.J. Ourso College of Business, he brought several “key initiatives” with him.

(May 12, 2010) Around the CoB: Thoughts on Skip Hughes and Trellis Green "Why does Skip need an office far from the accounting faculty? How much ego does Skip Hughes have that he has to have to biggest office on the third floor when the accountants move to the third floor...".

(May 17, 2010) When is the School of Accountancy’s G5 Coming? A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler "CoB dean Lance Nail is throwing around so much money these days, particularly to the benefit of the School of Accountancy, one can’t help but wonder when the SoA’s Gulfstream V is going to be delivered...".

(May 18, 2010) Skip Knows ‘CoB Code’: Another Look at the SoA Director Hughes’s Description of Michael Dugan "The CoB’s newly hired Horne LLP Distinguished Accounting Professor, Michael Dugan from the University of Alabama, received lavish praise from CoB dean Lance Nail and School of Accountancy director Skip Hughes,...".

We begin with accounting instructor Patty (Polk) Munn. She is an enigma as instructors go, because she has as much (if not more) job security and influence as many tenured full professors.

We continue with Rod Posey. "... Is using false information and ad hoc standards to punish those whom he doesn’t like what he teaches in the church where he serves a minister? One can only hope not. It certainly doesn’t sound very Christian...".