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(August 13, 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 (#5) compares the doctoral degree sources for the 1979 CBA faculty to those for the CoB faculty of 2007-08. Table 1 below lists the sources of the doctoral degrees held by the 1979 CBA faculty along with the U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2007 ranking for each of the institutions listed.

(August 13, 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 (#4) compares the admissions formula used for entry into the 1979 CBA’s MBA program to the one in use by the CoB today. Back in 1979, the following requirement was used to rule on the admission of prospective MBA students (see page 36, 1979 AACSB Application of CBA):

(August 14, 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. The recent USMNEWS.NET story entitled "Man of Troy" showed how Stanley Lewis may have been placed “out of field” during his years at USM. Now that he has moved on to Troy University, he is positioned as an associate professor of accounting, not MIS. This installment (#6) of 1979 examines the prevalence of “out of field” placement in the 1979 CBA to that in the 2007-08 CoB. Table 1 below shows the number of “out of field” faculty by department, using the 2007-08 departmental structure for the CoB.

(August 20, 2007) 1979 A Look Back at the CoB’s AACSB Application of 30 Years Ago “One day Dean Greene put his arm around my shoulder and said, ‘I think it’s time I promoted you . . .’” – Anonymous 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 (#8) examines the CBA of 1979’s procedures for promoting faculty. We begin with the following text from pages 59-60 of the 1979 AACSB Application: