DR. TRELLIS GREEN, FORMER ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
(October 5, 2007) GH Chatter, The Jim Henderson chatter from our last installment gets even more interesting. Some
faculty are saying that Henderson boasted, at the 4-May-07 CoB faculty meeting, about having "bombed" more
undergraduate students than any other faculty present in the meeting room (JGH 303). What is it with some faculty
accounting faculty wanting to see students do bad?
(April 24, 2008) USM's College of Business: A Certified Retirement Community A number of reports here at
USMNEWS.NET have focused on various forms of service dereliction by CoB administrators and the faculty they protect.
A good example of the former is EFIB Chair George Carter's Council of Chairs dereliction, while an example of the latter is
economics professor William Gunther's Faculty Senate dereliction.This report takes a fresh look at the types of service
dereliction covered in past reports by examining CoB faculty attendance at recent Academic Council and Graduate
Council meetings.
(August 19, 2008) Making a Move An Update to the 2009 Louis K. Brandt Predictions When we last visited our predictions
for the CoB’s 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award, MIS stalwart, Fujun Lai, stood solidly at the top. Though that remains
true even today, Lai’s hold on the top position is a bit more tenuous heading into fall 2008, the stretch run. A recent
Internet search has revealed that CoB economist, Trellis Green, has not one recent A-level publication, as reported earlier,
but two.
(September 10, 2008) Economoney A Look at the 2008-09 Salaries in ECO Continuing recent reports examining some of
the financials in the CoB's economics unit, this report presents the 2008-09 salaries for all of the CoB-H's economics
faculty. These data, which come from the 2008-09 USM Budget Book, are shown below in Table 1.
(March 22, 2009) Our Most Talented Colleagues Unique A-Level Hits of Current & Former CoB Faculty – Economics In
May of 2007, untenured assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia, a first-year CoB faculty who, to use EFIB
chairman George Carter's term, had just been "canned" by the University of Alabama, took the floor at the end of the
CoB's spring 2007 convocation. He then proceeded to blast the USMNEWS.net editor and various CoB faculty for
speaking out against the CoB's administration in a way Dakhlia felt encouraged his (Dakhlia's) most talented colleagues
to leave USM. Of course, Dakhlia wasn't speaking out in support of those CoB faculty who had been abused by CoB
administrators, as management professor Sharon Topping had spoken for only minutes before Dakhlia was handed the
rostrum by then-interim CoB dean Alvin Williams. The faculty Topping referred to were beginning to leave the CoB as
well by spring of 2007. Dakhlia, however, was, according to sources, speaking on behalf of CoBers (and Dakhlia's friends)
like Zaher Hallab (tourism management) and Akbar Marvasti (economics), CoB administrators' favorites who were either
leaving the CoB at that time or expressing a desire to do so.