ARTICLES CONCERNING
EVALUATION, TENURE AND FINANCIAL REWARDS
(October 16, 2006) USMPRIDE’s New “Your Value-to-Niroomand’s Value” Calculator "CoB faculty often wonder just
how Dean Harold Doty and his administrative team view the value of their service to the College and to the University.
To assist CoB faculty in quantifying their value to the CoB, USMPRIDE has developed the new “Your
Value-to-Niroomand’s Value” Calculator. This device uses your 2006 merit raise – which represents the most recent
opportunity that CoB administration has had to assess the value of everyone’s contributions – and CoB Associate Dean
Farhang Niroomand’s 2006 merit raise (as inputs). Because Niroomand’s $9,282 merit raise for 2006 was the CoB’s
largest, it seemed like a natural baseline for assessing all other non-administrative track faculty values (to the CoB).
Thus, the new calculator computes your individual 2006 merit raise as a percentage of Niroomand’s 2006 merit raise.
The results are presented alphabetically in Table 1 below:...".
(October 18, 2006) CoBscam? A Look at Questionable Teaching Schedules in the College of Business "An interesting
angle on some teaching scheduling practices in the CoB is taking shape, based on some documentation obtained by
USMPRIDE.COM. Investigators have copies of the EFIB teaching schedules for fall 2006 and spring 2007. Those
schedules indicate that certain EFIB faculty are receiving overload pay for teaching “out-of-load” courses. Let’s start with
the fall 2006 schedule...".
(November 3, 2006) CoBscam? A Look at Questionable Teaching Schedules in the College of Business "An interesting
angle on some teaching scheduling practices in the CoB is taking shape, based on some documentation obtained by
USMPRIDE.COM. Investigators have copies of the EFIB teaching schedules for fall 2006 and spring 2007. Those
schedules indicate that certain EFIB faculty are receiving overload pay for teaching “out-of-load” courses. Let’s start with
the fall 2006 schedule...".
(November 21, 2006) CoBscam? A Look at Associate Dean Niroomand’s Journal of Current Research in Global Business
Operation Researchers at USMPRIDE.COM have obtained financial records on CoB Associate Dean Farhang
Niroomand’s Journal of Current Research in Global Business operation. Numerous reports available at
USMPRIDE.COM have investigated the publishing practices of Niroomand and economics professor Edward Nissan. In
doing so, the issue of the CoB’s sponsorship of the JCRGB, a journal of dubious quality, has arisen. As the documents
presented below in this report indicate, concerns over Niroomand’s use of the JCRGB to garner large raises in the CoB’s
evaluation system appear to have been well founded.