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(August 18, 2009) Carter Put Bonaparte Back Into Exile A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler By now everyone has had a chance to digest the article about the USM budget cuts appearing recently in Inside Higher Ed entitled Cruel Irony. CoB economist, George Carter, provided the article's author with a letter that Carter has been circulating around the USM community and elsewhere that lists what are, in Carter's mind at least, some issues of due process regarding the USM administration's recent decision to eliminate the economics majors. In that letter Carter tells readers that CoB assistant professor of economics, Yosef Bonaparte, was terminated by USM during the 2008-09 academic year, Bonaparte's first year out of grad school (University of Texas) and first year at USM-Gulf Coast.

(September 14, 2009) GH Chatter Though there has been some chatter going around about the 2008-09 termination of CoB economist Yosef Bonaparte, there has still been no official word from Bonaparte via the media on his situation. There have been reports that he will be heading back to Texas following this academic year, though no one knows for sure.

(September 28, 2009) CoB News, 28 September 2009 Will Yosef Bonaparte File a Lawsuit? The report above reminds USMNEWS.net readers of George Carter's claim (in Inside Higher Ed) that CoB economist Yosef Bonaparte was fired without cause during the 2008-09 academic year. Bonaparte, who was hired by the CoB just before the 2008-09 academic year, was reportedly brought on board in a tenure-track capacity, but had his status changed (and his salary lowered) to visiting within weeks after the beginning of that same academic year.

(September 29, 2009) 31st & Pearl Why Bonaparte Will Not Sue Soon-to-be former CoB assistant professor Yosef Bonaparte was reportedly fired without cause by USM at the end of the 2008-09 academic year. He is now, during the 2009-10 academic season, presumably serving out a terminal contract. To read the way George Carter, the former EFIB chairman, spoke about the saga with reporters from Inside Higher Ed, Bonaparte has what some may think of as an "open and shut case." Will he sue USM?

(August 14, 2009) The ECO Terminal A Newsletter Relating to the Elimination of Economics Programs Bonaparte Terminated After 2008-09 In an interview with INSIDE HIGHER ED's Jack Stripling about the recent elimination of USM's economics programs – for Stripling's 14-August-09 article entitled "Cruel Irony" – CoB economics professor George Carter provided Stripling with a copy of letter that Carter is circulating, and that he (Carter) believes makes a case against USM's decision to terminate the economics faculty.