ARTICLES CONCERNING
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI'S
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS

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(January 24, 2011) Might USM Lose One-Sixth of its Faculty? by Duane Cobb According to Elizabeth Crisp’s 23-Jan-2011 report for The Clarion Ledger, more than one-third of USM’s psychology faculty “has offers in hand for better paying jobs.”

(January 25, 2011) The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 25-Jan-2011 Who Appealed the Elimination of MIS? As the USM program elimination appeals committee’s 13-Jan-2011 report makes clear, there was an official appeal of the decision by the Martha Saunders administration to eliminate the CoB’s BSBA in management information systems. The insert below shows that the nine-member appeals group not only heard such an appeal, they dispensed with it on a 9-0 vote to “deny,” ending any hope that this CoB unit has of existing after 2010-11.main office.

(January 26, 2011) The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 26-Jan-2011 More Money for Sports and Bricks
If readers have been too busy lately to keep up with goings on with USM’s football team, news of the departures of Todd Bradford and Kasey Dunn may have escaped notice.

(February 3, 2011) The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 3-Feb-2011 Saunders Accepts Program Appeals Recommendations On 2-Feb-2011, USM president Martha Saunders responded to the appeals committee’s recommendations regarding Saunders’ program eliminations. That response came via the e-mail inserted below, which is addressed “Dear Southern Miss Community.”

(February 8, 2011) How Much? How Long? by Duane Cobb “Maybe if . . . they knew better than to blow millions of dollars on a pointless wall in front of campus . . . maybe if they don’t own a jet, maybe then I would have an inkling of respect for the administrative bullshit that we call the leadership of USM.” – USM student Floyd Maseda, TSP interview, 31-August-2010 The USM Remittance Voucher below covers just one month, Aug-2010, of USM’s lease of the Beechcraft King Air that president Martha Saunders uses so liberally. The invoice amount is an astonishing $16,428.40. This amount is paid once a month, every month. Each time, this sum is no longer available to support USM academic programs, or USM faculty members.