(March 22, 2011) Feeling Safe at USM -- Dr. Becker, Is it Okay to Scream and Swear at Staff? And the next thing I
heard was that Dr. Becker was yelling, ‘Just get away from me. Just get the hell away from me.’ And my first
thought was that someone was attaching Dr. Becker. It was that – so I had the student – I told the student, I said
‘Stay here.’ And I got up and I stuck my head out the door. And as I stick my head out the door, I look down to my
right and I see Becker flailing her arms, yelling and screaming, saying ‘Just get away from me with that petty shit,
that petty, petty’ – she was just yelling and screaming at this secretary.”
ARTICLES CONCERNING
CHERYLNN BECKER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, FORMER
CHAIRMAN, DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(October 12, 2010) 31st & Pearl It Ain’t Martyrdom Operating on the premise that many USM faculty do not know
how budget cut preparations are being made in colleges other than their own, if even then, it’s time to shine some
light on one of the practices that CoB administrators have employed in order to shelter certain favored faculty from
termination
(May 24, 2011) Special Report Five CoB Faculty Tenured in 2011 Five of USM’s b-school faculty received tenure
from the Mississippi IHL during that governing body’s May-2011 meeting. These five CoBers join 35 other USM
faculty in being awarded tenure by the IHL. The five CoB faculty are: