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(May 2, 2008) Breaking News Clark Elected to Graduate Council, CoB Admin Will be Watching HATTIESBURG – Just as predicted by a USMNEWS.NET reader, sources tell our reporters that associate professor of finance, John Clark, was indeed elected as one of the CoB’s representatives to USM’s Graduate Council. Clark is also the Director of the CoB’s Center for Financial Services, a position he has used in the past as a sinecure, but one that provides the highly coveted course release and salary stipend.

(May 13, 2008) Special Report Lance Nail & the 'Bama Boys An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials
Even with the hiring of UAB's Lance Nail still being delayed for one reason or another, the CoB's faculty are preparing themselves for a Nail administration of the College. For two younger faculty -- the EFIB's John Clark and Sami Dakhlia -- that preparation may involve, according to USMNEWS.NET sources, an overconfidence in what Nail's ties to the University of Alabama will mean for them. Like Clark, Nail received a PhD in finance from UofAL. Dakhlia, like the EFIB's senior finance professor, Tom Lindley, once taught at UofAL. Will these UofAL ties give Clark and/or Dakhlia an advantage over other CoB faculty in dealing with, and getting things (resources, favors, etc.) from, Nail? Sources say "no," and this report may explain why.

(May 22, 2008) Special Report Classic CoB Mismanagement Why Carter's "Literature Presence" is Bad, Yet Once Allowed, How it Could've Been Beneficial As far back as the summer of 2006 USMNEWS.NET (formerly USMPRIDE.COM) has been reporting on George Carter's nebulous "literature presence" faculty evaluation metric. As it goes, Carter rates his EFIB faculty, in part, on the basis of literature presence, or their ability to maintain a "presence" in the literature comprising their respective disciplines. In Carter's EFIB, this includes economics, finance, international business and real estate. However, as reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.NET have demonstrated, Carter is in no position to judge the literature presence of the EFIB he governs. His own record is too weak, and too highly dependent (co-dependent) on the assistance of economics professor Edward Nissan to make the kinds of assessments one would supposedly make using a literature presence standard.

(May 27, 2008) 2007-2008 CoB Awards Another academic year draws to a close, it is time to look back and salute some of the CoB faculty members would will not otherwise get their just rewards. The following is a list of the major awards:

(May 28, 2008) Slipstreaming Away Another Look at John Clark's Marketing Research Within-field slipstreaming, or drafting, is becoming more and more of a problem for CoB administrators with the 2003-present mass exodus of quality CoB faculty. With EFIB Chair George Carter's failure to properly enforce his own literature presence standard, a new and perhaps greater problem -- cross discipline slipstreaming -- is now beginning to creep into the CoB lexicon. Given the evidence found to date, no one in the CoB comes close to associate professor of finance John Clark in terms of cross discipline slipstreaming.