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(July 24, 2007) Driving Ms. Doty What William Gunther's SEDONA Vita Says about Susan Doty's Qualifications to Head the Center for Economics Education at USM On 20-July-2007, reporters at USMNEWS.NET broke the story (see headline below) that an EFIB search committee had selected Susan Doty, wife of former CoB Dean Harold Doty, as its preferred candidate for the opening as Director of the EFIB's Center for Economics Education. Contained in that story is a copy of a 20-July-2007 e-mail to EFIB

(July 26, 2007) Carter comes Clean, on a Few Things An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain On 25-July-2007, EFIB Chairman released the following e-mail to EFIB faculty and a number of other CoB officials:

(August 2, 2007) 31st & Pearl FINito With the departure of Sean Salter, and with him the CoB's real estate program, the finance unit's final chapter appears be in press. What has transpired along the southern corridors of Greene Hall over the past 2 years goes to show, once again, that what takes years to build can be brought down virtually over night.

(August 2, 2007) An Interesting Thought for 2007-2008 If I were a CoB junior in 2007-2008, I would take the following courses and very possibly have the following instructors:

(August 2, 2007) Too Late More Information on the Departure of Sean Salter Information on the departure of former CoB assistant professor of finance Sean Salter continues to pour into USMNEWS.NET offices. This report covers two new items.

(August 3, 2007) The Per$ianization of the 2007 Merit Rai$e Proce$$ The results of the 2007 merit raise process have been released, and the data show that former CoB Associate Dean and professor of economics Farhang Niroomand, and associate professor of economics Akbar Marvasti, both natives of Iran, were big winners. The two garnered about $14,000 in raise monies out of a single A-level journal publication combined. Meanwhile, a number of CoB faculty with multiple A-level publications over the 2004-present raise window (e.g., Talai Osmonbekov, etc.) received insulting raises, ranging from just over $1,000 to about $4,500.

(August 5, 2007) The Case For the Dakhlia–Marvasti 2007 Merit Raise Gets Worse A USMNEWS.NET reader recently contacted our reporters about one of the analyses in our report “Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?” and offered a very useful suggestion. For readers who are not familiar with this report, it can be found at Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?.