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(July 13, 2007) AACSB Update #4 Previous reports in the AACSB Update series indicated that the CoB’s administration is planning to have a college-wide vote in early fall 2007 semester on a new (revised) Tenure & Promotion (T&P) policy for junior/untenured professors. Those reports also pointed out that other votes would occur. Sources now tell USMNEWS.NET that one of those other votes will be on a new (revised) CoB Mission Statement.

(July 21, 2007) AACSB Update #5 CoB faculty may be in the dark about what the CoB and its management team are doing to prepare for the upcoming 2008 6th Year Maintenance of Accreditation Review, but, as the e-mail inserted below shows, Sonia Gaines-Littles and Linda Jordan, executive assistants to Interim Dean Alvin Williams, sure seem to be inside “the loop.”

(August 10, 2007) 1979 A Look Back at the CoB’s AACSB Application of 30 Years Ago USMNEWS.NET has obtained a copy of the USM College of Business Administration’s AACSB Accreditation Application of 1979. Many current CoB faculty are comparing the organization today to the one of the Joe Greene era, and this document allows for a serious assessment of where USM’s College of Business stands today. This installment (#1) examines the CBA of 1979’s policies for recruiting new faculty. We begin with the following text from pages 58-59 of that report:

(August 10, 2007) 1979 A Look Back at the CoB’s AACSB Application of 30 Years Ago USMNEWS.NET has obtained a copy of the USM College of Business Administration’s AACSB Accreditation Application of 1979. Many current CoB faculty are comparing the organization today to the one of the Joe Greene era, and this document allows for a serious assessment of where USM’s College of Business stands today. This installment (#2) shows, as other reports here at USMNEWS.NET have, how CoB administrators sometimes create an alternate version of reality in order to promote the interests and desires of certain faculty favorites. As previewed in installment #1 in this series, this report deals with the treatment of economics professor Edward Nissan.

(August 10, 2007) 1979 A Look Back at the CoB’s AACSB Application of 30 Years Ago USMNEWS.NET has obtained a copy of the USM College of Business Administration’s AACSB Accreditation Application of 1979. Many current CoB faculty are comparing the organization today to the one of the Joe Greene era, and this document allows for a serious assessment of where USM’s College of Business stands today. This installment (#3) (re)visits three distinct eras in the history of USM’s business college. The first, of course, is the Joe Greene era. The second is the current, 2007-08 Doty-Williams era. Third, and most importantly, we revisit the end of the Ty Black era (late 1990s). These visits examine the profile of the business school’s faculty.