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(August 7, 2008) Perks for Buds XI Fall 2008 – Another Advantageous Semester for John Clark As the fall semester approaches in the CoB, we once again find John Clark teaching little to a few. He is scheduled to teach his beloved investments course to probably 40-45 students and retirement planning to 30-35 students; two classes, probably no more than 80 students, minimal prep time. His onerous teaching schedule is Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 to 10:45 and 11:00 to 12:15. Since he is not a morning person, he will seldom darken the doors of the CoB until 9:27 or later each class day.

(August 7, 2008) A Taste of How the CoB Works: Journal Classification One of the things USMNEWS.net has done over the past few years is to show just how politics in the CoB shapes just about everything that is done there. There is no better venue for doing that than the CoB's recent effort to classifiy journals across the various business disciplines. Politics affected that 2007-08 process from the jump. First, the CoB was being administered by an interim dean, Alvin Williams. Williams is certainly not known as a top-notch researcher, even by CoB standards. Thus, 2007-08 was not the proper time to re-classify business journals at USM.

(September 24, 2008) Special Report Michael Wittmann Orders Up a "Clark Special" An Inve stigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain To hear sources describe it, the ridiculousness that is USM's College of Business these days is beyond measure. That sentiment received a major boost recently when it was discovered that the CoB sought, and has received, the approval of the Mississippi IHL to set up a Center for Healthcare Marketing and Sales. As the excerpt from page 46 of the IHL's 17/18-Sept-08 meeting's consent agenda shows, the CoB's CHMS will be a "limited scope center" that will "advance education, research, and practice in healthcare sales and marketing . . ."

(September 30, 2008) The Carter Bunch A Look at How George Carter's Politics May Ruin the Nail Administration Have no doubts about it, EFIB chairman George Carter is on a mission to bring down the new Lance Nail administration of USM's College of Business. And, with the hiring and firing and "friendraising" efforts he has made over the past two decades, he may indeed pull it off before it is all over. This column is Part 1 in a three-part series of opinion pieces that will attempt to explain just how Carter may pull off the coup that some in the CoB are hoping for and others are nervous about.

(October 14, 2008) Special Report Hub FINs An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials With a number of tenure and promotion decisions looming large in the finance section of the EFIB over the coming months, USMNEWS.net reporters are taking a look at the quality of the economics and finance research coming from the CoB’s FIN faculty.