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(June 27, 2007) 31st & Pearl In the CoB, Sabbaticals = Paid Vacations The selection of Alvin Williams for a 2007-08 sabbatical (IHL Meeting Minutes, Apr-07) continues a curious string of CoB award recipients for this type of leave. Williams is working on 28 years at USM now. Just what sort of return is the IHL expecting on a sabbatical investment in Williams at this point?

(August 7, 2007) Management & Marketing News, 8 August 2007 We have a number of interesting news items to report from the Management & Marketing Department as we approach the start of 2007-08. A few of these are detailed below.

(October 8, 2007) CoB Power Line A Look at Who Holds the Reigns of Power in the CoB by Duane Cobb The CoB has devolved into such an academic banana republic of sorts that it is probably useful to take stock, from time to time, of just who holds the most political power there. Without question political power in the CoB waxes and wanes, just as it does in any of the typical unstable, tin pot hot spots around the globe. That's what updates are for.

(November 16, 2007) Backstage Pass A Look at How "EFIB Dominance" is Impacting Academic Quality in the CoB For a number of years, the CoB's core curriculum has included ECO 336, or international economics. Some of the CoB's economists have argued that globalization trends demand that the CoB's students be exposed to a course in international economics, and for years now, they have been. At the same time there have also been small factions among the CoB faculty that have argued for an option in the core curriculum that allows students to use the international course in each major (e.g., international management, etc.) to fulfill this "international" portion of the CoB's core. Whenever these factions raised a voice, the economists would attempt to hush that voice as quickly as possible. To do otherwise would reduce the number of student credit hours taught by the CoB's economists -- a situation that would ultimately threaten the size and composition of that group.

(November 16, 2007) Breaking News IHL Board Approves Healthcare Marketing Degree HATTIESBURG – In his 15-Nov-07 article entitled “USM to offer new degree program,” The Hattiesburg American’s Phil Hearn informs the South Mississippi community that the Mississippi IHL Board has approved the CoB’s new Healthcare Marketing degree program. Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams told Hearn that the CoB is “excited about this [new degree program],” and that the CoB’s Marketing faculty have put together “a state-of-the-art program” whose nearest competitors are as far away as Saint Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA) and Rutgers University in New Jersey.