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(September 20, 2007) Dear USM New s, No one should be surprised about the latest on the economics chairman, George Carter. By not allowing Ernest King to receive the “PQ” distinction, Carter and Harold Doty did put the college’s accreditation standing in jeopardy.

(September 21, 2007) 31st & Pearl Survival of the Meanest "Mike [Forster] reported on a conversation he had with George Carter regarding the evolving role of the department chair. They discussed the idea of having a panel discussion on this topic...". USM Council of Chairs Meeting Minutes for 6 April 2006, http://www.usm.edu/coc/minutes/minutes_april2006.doc

(October 1, 2007) A College in Crisis by Duane Cobb New USM President Martha Saunders now knows what many of you have known for some time. That is, USM's College of Business is a College in crisis. And, though some in the CoB seem incapable of seeing it, the crisis goes well beyond the AACSB Maintenance of Accreditation process.

(October 5, 2007) GH Chatter, The Jim Henderson chatter from our last installment gets even more interesting. Some faculty are saying that Henderson boasted, at the 4-May-07 CoB faculty meeting, about having "bombed" more undergraduate students than any other faculty present in the meeting room (JGH 303). What is it with some faculty accounting faculty wanting to see students do bad?

(October 8, 2007) CoB Power Line A Look at Who Holds the Reigns of Power in the CoB by Duane Cobb The CoB has devolved into such an academic banana republic of sorts that it is probably useful to take stock, from time to time, of just who holds the most political power there. Without question political power in the CoB waxes and wanes, just as it does in any of the typical unstable, tin pot hot spots around the globe. That's what updates are for.

(October 8, 2007) Breaking News Sawyer Does the (Once) Unthinkable HATTIESBURG – A significant buzz is being generated around Joseph Greene Hall, and via an e-mail chain, regarding the latest news about the 2007-08 P&T Jailbreak Train (in USM's College of Business). According to information that has reached reporters at USMNEWS.NET, one of the three "outside reviewers'" letters written on behalf of Akbar Marvasti's application for promotion to full professor of economics comes from former EFIB economist Charles Sawyer, who is now with TCU.