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(April 14, 2010) 31st & Pearl Doty was Duped . . . What is Nail’s Excuse? Regular readers of USMNEWS.net should visit the site’s Archives from time to time. I was just there recently, looking back at The Past 30 Years, a report submitted by a USMNEWS.net reader about one of the ugliest episodes in recent CoB history.

(April 15, 2010) Putting the “Gap” in “Gappy” Examining the USM Departure of Sami Dakhlia As the CoB’s economists depart the Joseph Greene Hall stage at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, USMNEWS.net will be examining the research credentials that will be leaving the CoB, if not the institution as a whole. This installment focuses on associate professor Sami Dakhlia, who is one of the four mostly junior economists who was saved by the forced retirements of five mostly senior CoB economists.

(April 26, 2010) Saved by Departures Two Retiring ECO Faculty may Remain at USM After 2009-10 Dakhlia to THA Readers: CoAL Economics Program will Likely Fail One of the two surprise resignations in ECO came from associate professor Sami Dakhlia, who will be joining a French university for 2010-11. Dakhlia told Kemp that, in his view, there is “insufficient willingness within the USM administration to create a thriving or even feasible economics program.” Dakhlia was even so bold as to predict that the program would likely fail.

(June 2, 2010) GH Chatter Chatter has it that outgoing CoB economist Sami Dakhlia’s Canebrake home is up for sale at a cool $450,000. Dakhlia didn’t make the four year mark with USM, and he is leaving at $84,000 per year.

(June 3, 2010) Dakhlia’s Follies A Guest Editorial by Susan Greene-Lewis Browsing through both the USMNEWS.net Archives and heretofore untapped files yields a number of interesting situations pertaining to outgoing CoB associate professor of economics Sami Dakhlia. Dakhlia joined the CoB in August-2006, after a failed tenure-track run with the University of Alabama.