GEORGE C. CARTER, FORMER CHAIRMAN, FORMER DEPARTMENT
OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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(January 17, 2007) As Transgressions Go By Chairman (DCP) Carter is not one to learn much from the past, including
autogenous mistakes; one might think given the nature of recent mistakes – transgressions – including a semi-public
apology for one, he might be somewhat more careful. One conclusion is DCP lives his life sprinting from one visceral
reaction to another. React, do not think.
(January 23, 2007) The CoB's Cut-and-Paste Culture by Duane Cobb I don't know when it began, and it's probably been
around for a while, but I'm almost certain that the CoB's cut-and-paste culture has never been as ingrained as it is
today. This website has been reporting on it for almost six months -- long before the Dr. Cut-and-Paste column
appeared here recently. Although that column referenced EFIB Chair George Carter's use of a job opening
advertisement template, one created by another EFIB faculty, to prepare for a job search, CoB Dean Harold Doty is
usually at the center of the cut-and-paste culture.
(January 25, 2007) George Carter to the Untenured: "Vote for Option III" Near the end of the 19 September 2006 "Black
Tuesday" faculty governance re-vote meeting in the EFIB, Chairman George Carter put the options facing the faculty on
the table. A rhetorical question was then asked by finance professor Tom Lindley. Carter did not waste the opportunity
to answer that rhetorical question from Lindley. In doing so, Carter was effectively telling the EFIB's 10 untenured
professors how to vote. Here is that dialogue: