ARTICLES CONCERNING
EVALUATION, TENURE AND FINANCIAL REWARDS
EVALUATION, TENURE AND FINANCIAL REWARDS
(February 8, 2008) Special Report Handbook Illusions An Investigative Report on CoB Faculty Governance CoB
Interim Dean Alvin Williams recently communicated to CoB faculty that a college-wide vote on amendments to the
CoB faculty handbook, Enhancing Faculty Productivity, was looming. Contained in Williams' communiqué was a
copy of the latest version of EFP.
(March 5, 2008) Special Report Searching for One Thing, and Finding Two An Investigative Report on the Faculty
Rewards System in the CoB The recent installment in the Special Report series entitled "ECO Census" presented data
on the age of each of the 10 remaining full-time faculty in the CoB’s economics group that were gathered by reporters
at USMNEWS.NET using a Kintera-type Internet search procedure. These age data, along with additional
information on flaws in ECO’s recent hiring practices, indicated that ECO is adding to the human resources troubles
that it inevitably faces as a result of administrators’ malevolence. In searching for these data, USMNEWS.NET
reporters stumbled upon evidence of a proposition revealed by a regular reader of reports and editorials available at
this website.
(April 9, 2008) Just Who Does Southern Miss’ CoB Think It Is? Part 1 Finance Faculty Salaries in USM’s CoB vs. South
Carolina-Based Institutions
(April 10, 2008) Just Who Does Southern Miss’ CoB Think It Is? Part 4 Faculty Salaries in USM’s CoB vs. Iowa-Based
Institutions
(April 13, 2008) More Summer Teaching Shenanigans in EFIB George Carter's Preferential Teaching Schedules are
Becoming an Annual Affair Summer teaching schedule shenanigans are not new to George Carter's EFIB. In The
CoB's 2006 Summer Teaching Deals Explained, USMNEWS.NET reporters explain how Carter, the chair of EFIB,
gave preferential summer teaching salaries in the summer of 2006 to economists Edward Nissan and Charles Sawyer
(now with TCU), while Trellis Green and Ernest King, also EFIB faculty, were denied those same salary deals.
(June 20, 2008) Breaking News No Raises in 2008, Except for Nail, Dakhlia and Few Others HATTIESBURG – In a
20-June-08 update to The Hattiesburg American's webpage, THA reporter Valerie Wells has informed the USM
community that very few USM faculty and staff will be receiving raises this spring. This news came via USM Public
Relations official, Jana Bryant, who informed Wells that outside of the usual promotion and/or reassignment raises, no
one at USM will be getting a raise in 2008. This result may come as a surprise to many, given that USM President
Martha Saunders has informed the USM community in one forum or another that she and her staff were combing the
University's budget, hoping to find areas to carve out for merit and/or cost-of-living raises for all faculty and staff.
According to Wells' report, Saunders failed in that quest, and there will not be any general raises after her (Saunders')
first year in office.