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(May 10, 2007) Sedona Files As USMNEWS.NET readers are now aware, we have acquired copies of CoB faculty vitae via a Freedom of Information Act filing that was completed in spring of 2007. One of those Sedona vitae belongs to EFIB Chair George Carter. Recall that earlier reports here at USMNEWS.NET indicated that Carter claims to have been the Interim Commissioner of Higher Education for the State of Mississippi (in 1987), a position now held on a non-Interim basis by Thomas Meredith. That claim has appeared on the CoB’s website for some time (see near bottom of screen below).

(May 11, 2007) Life on the EFIB Plantation Will George Carter’s “Your Field Only” Rule for EFIB Research be Applied Equally? The subtitle above is the question of the day in the EFIB, and perhaps only time will reveal the answer, if ever. While we wait, reporters at USMNEWS.NET have compiled several tables in order to draw some preliminary findings about how the EFIB’s untenured faculty look against Carter’s unwritten rule about publishing only in one’s field of expertise. The series of tables below report refereed journal articles since the turn of the century for all untenured tenure-track faculty in the EFIB who are expected to submit tenure dossiers in the CoB. The information on refereed journals articles is taken from each faculty’s Sedona vita (provided to USMNEWS.NET via a Mississippi Open Records Act request).

(May 22, 2007) Just Another “I” in the “EFIB” A Look at John Clark’s Role in Finance Faculty Evaluations The 2007 CoB faculty evaluations process may have come to a close, but reports coming out of the EFIB Department suggest that the 2007 process may represent one of the most egregious cases of sycophancy and misuse of authority over the past two years. Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have pieced together an account the EFIB’s 2007 faculty evaluation process that is both disturbing and shocking. This account is broken down into the sections you see below, concluding with commentary from our own Duane Cobb.

(May 23, 2007) COB Confidential Staffers at USMNEWS recently received a parcel containing several items of interest (along with written instructions). This installment of “COB Confidential” examines a portion of that parcel that is relevant to our mission of uncovering the kinds of things that CoB administrators treat as confidential. If you are a regular reader of USMNEWS you are aware that our editor, Marc DePree, is constantly prodding CoB administrators to admit that faculty vitae are not confidential. Usually the prodding is to no avail. This issue of “COB Confidential” relates to that very subject.

(May 24, 2007) Money, Money, Money, Money Consulting and Paid Service in USM’s College of Business This report examines the consulting and paid service that faculty in the CoB are performing, at least according their own SEDONA files (as of May 2007). As you will see below, some of the CoB’s least research-active faculty are engaging in significant amounts of consulting and paid service, all of which enhances their (in some cases bloated) USM salaries. At the bottom of each consulting/paid service bio below, we provide salary data for 2006-07 along with a projected salary for 2007-08. Enjoy.