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(July 31, 2009) A recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Staff Support Jobs Double in 20 Years, Outpacing Enrollment” claims that USM has had one of the “biggest increases” in the nation in “growth in managers and support personnel relative to enrollment”: 84%.” Will USM's managers and support personnel be eliminated and/or released along with faculty? Usmnews.net invites Dr. Saunders and our readers to share their thoughts.

(July 21, 2008) The Cost of a Presidential Search (questions raised by a contributor are at the bottom of the document) "… 7.Are all these searches a reason for tight budgets and no raises? 8.After one year, what have the tax payers of Mississippi and the stakeholders of USM received from Dr. Saunders? The response that she is “not Shelby Thames” is both obvious and unresponsive. What has she done?"

(August 11, 2009) Report from USM Department of Marketing and Public Relations "Southern Miss Group Makes FY 2011 Budget Cut Recommendations

(August 11, 2009) Economics Programs Eliminated, ECO Faculty Cut Loose "Recent speculation by USMNEWS.net sources that the CoB's economics programs and faculty were in jeopardy from the plans to shave $2 million from the CoB's budget have come to fruition. The USM administration has now released detailed reports enumerating dozens of line-item budget cuts, and the CoB's economics programs and faculty are found amongst these...".

(August 12, 2009) Taking it on the Chin: A Look At How Parts Of USM's Budget Cuts Were Completed "Now that the details of the 2009-10 USM budget cuts have been released by the Martha D. Saunders administration, USMNEWS.net staffers took a moment to summarize some of the data. Table 1 below shows how cuts in actual personnel were made across USM's five academic colleges...".

(August 12, 2009) Budget Cuts Central "BOARDS HEATING UP The recent release of the data surrounding USM's $11-$12 million budget cut formed the backdrop for a heated debate about USM's decision to eliminate the economics major from the College of Business...".

(August 13, 2009) The Other Shoe "With only 7 tenured and 5 tenure-track faculty being fired as a result of the $8 million (or $7.8 million) in budget cuts now being penciled in at USM, it seems clear that most of the talked-about canning of faculty lies in the $3 million to $4 million in cuts that are yet to come...".

(August 13, 2009) CoB Dean Goes on Record Regarding Budget Cuts "Just recently the CoB cut the better part of $1.5 million from its operating budget, the result of a process that has been weeks and months in the making, and one in which USM's four other academic deans have been taking part in their respective colleges...".
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(August 13, 2009) Remaining CoB Academic Programs to be Spared? "According to a recent interview of USM provost Robert Lyman by WDAM-TV, USM's Academic Planning Group has recommended that if USM's total budget cut rises from the recently-announced $7.5-$8.0 million total to the $11 or $12 million total that is expected by year's end none of the additional cuts come from the academic side of the institution...".

(August 16, 2009) USM Provost Outlines Procedures for Appealing Budget Cuts "In an e-mail to USM personnel, USM provost Robert Lyman has spelled out the mechanism for appealing the proposed $8 million in budget cuts at USM. The text of that e-mail - which states that appeals begin with the deans, move to the provost, and then go to the president/executive cabinet - is inserted below...".

(August 18, 2009) Sharing the Pain? How USM's Budget Cuts Hit its Five Academic Colleges "In his 13-August-09 report for The Hattiesburg American entitled "USM budget Cuts: All 5 colleges may be hit," THA reporter Tim Doherty discovered just how much money will be cut by each of the five academic colleges at USM. The data uncovered by Doherty are detailed below in Table 1...".

(August 17, 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, ...".

(August 12, 2009) Long Since: Looking Back at Brain Drain Hits "Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have highlighted some of the specifics of the $11-$12 million budget cuts being carried out now by the USM central administration. Preliminary reports like these place 5 tenured and 4 tenure-track faculty terminations in USM's CoB, with all of these coming via the termination of economics faculty through elimination of the CoB's economics programs...".