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(April 23, 2009) Dear Skip: Mary Anderson has a brother named Joe Morgan who is the Vice President for Finance at Southern Miss. Many reports say she has threatened to go to him – and has gone to him – when she does not get her way. Without question she believes you will be sitting in her chair, i.e., her daddy’s chair. Be prepared for it. You and the dean may want to map out a strategy in advance so when it happens, and Nail is out of the office, you know you are green-lighted for action. Do not let her publications fool you. Ask her to publish some articles without her dissertation chairman; see what happens.

(August 11, 2009) Special Report The GS Cites Trap An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have examined Google Scholar cites to research conducted by various CoB faculty. As in past reports in this series, the data examined recently have been unadjusted GS cites. That is, there has been no accounting for self-cites in the overall data. This report addresses that issue by subtracting self-cites from the overall data, using a 6-Aug-09 GS cites search for ACC.

(September 28, 2009) breaking news . . . USM to Cut more than $4.9 Million during Fall 2009 HATTIESBURG – USM Chief Financial Officer Joe Morgan has released the details of USM’s response to Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s call for state universities to slash their budgets. Those details (see usm.edu/budget/) indicate that USM will be cutting $4,994,386 from it current budget during fall semester 2009. Excluded from these cuts are scholarships, waivers, contingencies and fixed costs, which are all being sheltered from budget cutting by the Martha Saunders administration. Although unfilled faculty/staff positions will likely be used to cover the more than $4.9 million budget cut, USM officials have not decided how the cuts will be made on a department by-department basis at this time.

(November 9, 2009) Dear Skip: Assuming Mary Morgan Anderson gets promoted and tenured, and assuming Lance Nail moves on to another dean’s job that he is hunting for, where does that leave you? Will you depart to join Lance at school #2? That will thrill Professor Anderson, if not the remaining accounting faculty. You know she believes you are sitting in her chair, right?

(April 4, 2010) The Three-Tiered CoB School of Accounting The potential addition of University of Alabama accountant Michael Dugan to the CoB’s School of Accounting does, as the recent . . . Breaking News . . . report indicates, create a three-tiered accounting school, at least as far as A-level publications goes. At the top of the SoA – the Tier 1 faculty – are two current CoB accountants, and, of course, Dugan (should he join the SoA). Their relatively high number of A-level contributions are pictured below.