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(July 9, 2007) Special Report Sawyer’s Retirement Package An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain The recent Breaking News story entitled “Sawyer’s Pay Exceeds Budget Line by 15%” (see below) has piqued the interest of many usmnews.net readers.

(July 17, 2007) Special Report A New Breed: The CoB’s Clinical Teaching Professorship An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain Recent reports at usmnews.net have spotlighted former CoB economics professor Charles Sawyer’s final year in the CoB (2006-07). Sawyer, now a visiting professor of economics at the University of Arkansas, taught two overload courses as a professor in USM’s College of Business during the 2006-07 academic year. It has been reported that Sawyer earned “more than $107,000” for the 2006-07 academic year, and a recent report in this series entitled “Sweet November” indicated that Sawyer was paid (1) $1,500 in Nov-06 for overload teaching, and (2) $2,300 in Nov-06 through a BAC Professorship.

(July 26, 2007) Carter comes Clean, on a Few Things An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain On 25-July-2007, EFIB Chairman released the following e-mail to EFIB faculty and a number of other CoB officials:

(August 2, 2007) Memo to Osmonbekov: You’re Not Valued Here Whether assistant professor of marketing Talaibek Osmonbekov realizes it yet, the evidence is mounting to suggest that the CoB no longer, assuming it ever did, values his services. The recent publication of the CoB’s 2007 merit raises solidifies the case, as the analysis below shows.

(August 3, 2007) The Per$ianization of the 2007 Merit Rai$e Proce$$ The results of the 2007 merit raise process have been released, and the data show that former CoB Associate Dean and professor of economics Farhang Niroomand, and associate professor of economics Akbar Marvasti, both natives of Iran, were big winners. The two garnered about $14,000 in raise monies out of a single A-level journal publication combined. Meanwhile, a number of CoB faculty with multiple A-level publications over the 2004-present raise window (e.g., Talai Osmonbekov, etc.) received insulting raises, ranging from just over $1,000 to about $4,500.