D. HAROLD DOTY, FORMER DEAN, COLLEGE OF BUSINESS,
CURRENT DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER
(April 14, 2010) From the Ghost of Christmas Future Message from the New Dean Welcome to the College of Business
Administration webpage here at Central Michigan University. I am now back in the great white north, and happy to
be here as your new dean. I look forward to working with all of the b-school constituencies in the coming weeks and
months as we strive to develop our new mission statement, honor code, and fundraising plans (I’ll have more to say
about private money in the future). However, I can’t begin on these things until I entrench my wife Susan in the
economics department here at CMU.
(April 15, 2010) One Hundred Minus Ten by Duane Cobb Institutions that get to 100 years deserve to celebrate. This
year, 2010, Southern Miss made it to that point. During the first few months of this year there were celebrations here
and there. Then, on 30-March-10, there were numerous celebrations, including Founders’ Day 2010, the Centennial
Convocation, dedication of the Centennial Gateway, and more.
(April 20, 2010) Doty vs. Sequeira? Maybe Next Year . . . Van Arnold’s 15-April-10 press release entitled “Students in
Free Enterprise Team Earns Regional Award” tells the story about how USM’s Jennifer Sequeira-led Students in Free
Enterprise team took home the “Rookie of the Year Award” at the SIFE USA Regional Competition in Atlanta in early
April of 2010. USM was one of 53 teams competing in the Atlanta Regional, so such a high-level performance
represents a significant accomplishment for the first-time SIFE competitors from Hattiesburg. According to Sequeira,
“. . . we look forward to next year’s competition.”
(April 25, 2010) The Kingdom Ignored One of the AQ-PQ Debacles that Almost Cost the CoB AACSB Accreditation
There are so many reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net that describe how former CoB dean Harold Doty
completely bungled the USM b-school’s 2007 AACSB re-accreditation effort that it would take one a weekend to go
through them all. One aspect of that debacle is how what sources have referred to as Doty’s “personal agenda”
blinded the former CoB dean to the task then at hand – securing the AACSB’s favor. Arguably, the most prominent
example of this came via Doty’s unexpected and unwarranted attack on CoB legal studies professor Ernest King.
(April 27, 2010) CoB News 27 April 2010 Ranking the B-School Deans by Duane Cobb - Ranking the permanent USM
business school deans is something I have been contemplating for some time. My ranking is in the table below.
(May 23, 2010) Responsibility for Carter’s Bitterness Misplaced A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler Former EFIB
chairman and outgoing CoB/USM economist George Carter is extremely bitter these days. He may have some right to
be, given that his pending 30-June-10 retirement was forced upon him by the Martha Saunders administration. Still,
Carter’s bitterness is largely aimed, sources say, at CoB dean Lance Nail, instead of other, perhaps more appropriate,
targets. One of these, arguably the primary one, is former CoB dean Harold Doty (pictured below).
