(April 21, 2010) GH Chatter It seems the CoB is getting the disapproving glance from all quarters these days. The hiring of Skip Hughes and Michael Dugan in accounting, at what most believe is easily the better part of $0.5 million per year, has much of the non-CoB portion of USM fuming. Add to that the local community’s surging distaste of USM faculty, thanks in part to Mark Klinedinst’s crusade against USM athletics (sacred cow?), and things aren’t going the CoB’s (or USM’s) way.

MICHAEL DUGAN, PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTANCY AND
HORNE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTANCY

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(May 14, 2010) 31st & Pearl Consummate Caregivers Even though the CoB’s School of Accountancy seems interested in hiring mainly older white guys, the unit has still managed to undergo a feminization of sorts in recent weeks.

(May 13, 2010) The CoB has Dugan by the Horne The Story Behind Dugan’s Hiring Keeps Shifting, While Dugan’s Job Keeps Morphing With its 11-May-2010 press release entitled “Dugan to Join School of Accountancy Faculty in Fall,” the USM public relations team is late to the party. News of Michael Dugan’s imminent arrival has been circulating around campus for weeks now, and USMNEWS.net has reported on the story several times to date.

(May 14, 2010) When is the School of Accountancy’s G5 Coming? A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler CoB dean Lance Nail is throwing around so much money these days, particularly to the benefit of the School of Accountancy, one can’t help but wonder when the SoA’s Gulfstream V is going to be delivered. After all, if USM president Martha Saunders gets to have an airplane, why can’t the big dogs over in USM’s b-school have one?

(May 17, 2010) Skip Knows ‘CoB Code’ Another Look at the SoA Director Hughes’s Description of Michael Dugan The CoB’s newly hired Horne LLP Distinguished Accounting Professor, Michael Dugan from the University of Alabama, received lavish praise from CoB dean Lance Nail and School of Accountancy director Skip Hughes, all via Van Arnold’s 11-May-2010 press release entitled “Dugan to Join School of Accountancy Faculty in Fall.” This praise was the subject of USMNEWS.net’s recent 31st & Pearl editorial entitled Consummate Caregivers. There is, however, a phrase uttered by Hughes (about Dugan) from Arnold’s presser that was not examined in that prior report, and is the subject of this column. That quote from Hughes is –

(May 20, 2010) Donna Davis on the Dugan Hire In her capacity as a USM faculty senator, CoB MIS professor Donna Davis defended, during the faculty senate’s May-2010 meeting, the Lance Nail administration’s decision to hire Michael Dugan. The decision came under fire when USM faculty senator Mary Beth Applin told USM associate provost William Powell that it seemed strange that the CoB threw out an entire academic unit (economics) and then turned around and hired someone at what was essentially an associate dean-level position (Dugan).