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(December 10, 2010) The Top 10 CoB Stories of 2010 By Duane Cobb Each year at about this time I provide USMNEWS.net my top ten news items involving USM’s business school for the year. This is Part 3 in that countdown for the top CoB stories of 2010.

1. Good Night, and Good Bye to ECO – Even though the CoB’s economics program was eliminated, and its faculty terminated, back in the fall of 2009, the story surrounding this move continued to make big news into 2010. The Martha Saunders administration eventually reversed itself somewhat by accepting the economics faculty’s plan to save the four mostly junior professors (Akbar Marvasti, Sami Dakhlia, Daniel Monchuk, and Deniz Gevrek) and the program, after moving it to the liberal arts college, if the five mostly senior faculty (William Gunther, George Carter, Trellis Green, Mark Klinedinst, and Edward Nissan) would go quietly (and, essentially, forcibly) into retirement.

(January 14, 2011) The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 14-Jan-2011 Program Appeals Done; Saunders Contradicts Herself As higher education reporter Ed Kemp indicates in his 13-Jan-2010 story for The Hattiesburg American entitled “Appeals process under way at USM,” the nine-member USM appeals committee has essentially completed its hearings on program cuts enacted by USM president Martha Saunders (during Fall-2010) in an effort to address an expected $15 million cut for FY2012.

(January 20, 2011) . . . breaking news . . . Appeals Committee Rejects Saunders’ Cuts HATTIESBURG – As The Hattiesburg American is reporting, the nine-member appeals committee is supporting the reinstatement of 10 of the 28 academic program cuts put forward during Fall-2010 by USM president Martha Saunders.

(January 20, 2011) . . . breaking news . . . Shrinking Budget Feeding Growing Administration HATTIESBURG – Even though the USM budget will shrink by somewhere between $10 million and $25 million by 2012, the Martha Saunders administration continues to grow at an alarming rate. Much of this growth has been covered by reports here at USMNEWS.net, and this particular report brings even more news on the Saunders administration growth front.