historyeco

As the clock ticks toward ECO moving from the CoB,
usmnews.net reprints, by reader request, news reports
and editorials discussing some of ECO's troubled history

Revisiting George Carter's Role in Black Tuesday -- September 20, 2006 -- Developing Story "... Carter’s statement went on to say that he was uncomfortable having to share private faculty information with other faculty members, such as would be required under a committee governance option, and that he (Carter) would be more comfortable making the independent assessment of faculty that is required of him as chair without being part of a committee governance structure...".

(November 3, 2009) Been That Long? "The recent reprinting (on 2-Nov-09) of some older USMNEWS reports about the so-called "Black Tuesday" in the EFIB reminded CoBers and other readers of USMNEWS.net that the website has been around for quite some time...".

More on George Carter's Role in Black Tuesday -- September 24, 2006 -- On Being George Carter: A Reaction to George Carter's "Prepared Statement" to EFIB, 9/19/2006 "The 45 Minutes document showed us that certain individuals are writing about public faculty information in an uncomplimentary, derisive, and hurtful manner...".

The Ethics Professor and the Company Man -- August 16, 2006 -- Students in the USM College of Business are required to take an ethics course - PHI 300 - which focuses on business ethics. The course is often taught by George Carter, Chairman of the Department of Economics, Finance, and International Business and Professor of Economics.

A "Big Easy" Schedule in the EFIB -- October 23, 2006 -- This Special Report examines the spring 2007 teaching schedule of John Lambert, a visiting assistant professor of international business at USM...".

Why Carter Must Go -- December 31, 2006 -- ". . . Dean Doty,By now, I am sure that you have heard the audio clip on usmpride.com in which I make disparaging remarks about you. I remember making those remarks to Sean Salter as we discussed the loss of Doug Witte as a finance professor. The remarks were totally inappropriate at the time and remain so today.

What’s Wrong with the Learning Process in Stats? January 31, 2007 "Claims by members of the AACSB Team (e.g., George Carter) that the CoB’s undergraduates are deficient in statistics knowledge have been the subject of other reports posted to USMPRIDE.COM in the past...".

Carter and Clark to Receive $7,500 to $12,000 in Overload Pay October 15, 2007 "Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that economics professor George Carter and associate professor of finance John Clark will both be teaching overload courses during spring 2008...".

Carter’s Coup: 2½ Days in the Making? (September 21, 2006) Recent reports at USMPRIDE have described the events in the CoB’s EFIB department on Tuesday, September 19, 2006. As has been suggested, EFIB Chair George Carter resigned from the elected 3-person governance committee in a way that circumvented the department’s right to an Option 2 governance structure. In doing so, Carter may have violated the Faculty Handbook, which, as some would suggest, is something he’s done in the past (e.g., the Trellis Green lawsuit).

George Carter on Subjective Evaluation (May 7, 2007) "EFIB Chair George Carter leaves no opening for surprise. It's one misstep after another, one fly in the ointment followed by two more. The latest gaffe comes from the 4 May 2007 CoB faculty meeting, wherein Carter expressed his views on subjective grading of CoB students, as part of a conversation with CoB Associate Dean Joseph Peyrefitte, assistant professor of finance Sean Salter, and the CoB's Assurance of Learning Coordinator Donna Davis:...".

What was a “Black Tuesday” Proxy Worth? (October 19, 2006) A Look at Circumstances Suggesting a Potential Vote-for-Benefits Arrangement In the course of their investigations into the spring 2007 EFIB teaching loads, investigators have put together a cases that suggests there may have been a vote-trading arrangement in the EFIB regarding the now infamous “Black Tuesday” EFIB governance re-vote.

Is Carter an Economist, a Statistician, an Ethicist, or None of the Above? (October 16, 2006) "A recent report at usmpride.com titled “CoBscam? A Look at Questionable Teaching Schedules in the College of Business” uncovered a significant fact. Professor of Economics George Carter isn’t teaching a single economics course in the 2006-07 academic year...".

Carter comes Clean, on a Few Things (July 26, 2007) On 25-July-2007, EFIB Chairman released the following e-mail to EFIB faculty and a number of other CoB officials:

Hosed by Carter (May 7, 2007) "Recently, a complaint filed by an EFIB professor against EFIB Chairman George Carter’s 2006 annual evaluation practices made its way to USMNEWS.NET...".

Written Tenure Standards: It’s Time (April 22, 2007) "...One of the most problematic issues is the identified lack of articulated tenure standards. In the AACSB Team’s meeting with untenured faculty, it became clear that nobody at USM knows what level of achievement is sufficient to earn tenure...".

What Does a "C-Publication" Cost These Days? An Answer from a Surprise Found During the Production of "Jaw Dropper" (April 10, 2007) "A recent report published here at usmnews.net entitled "Jaw Dropper on the Horizon . . ." delved into the news that EFIB Chair George Carter has informed members of the EFIB Department...".

Some of our readers have asked usmnews.net to reprint "Jaw Dropper" (March 30, 2007) which was referenced in What Does a "C-Publication" Cost These Days? "Usmnews.net has just learned that EFIB Chair George Carter has told some faculty in the EFIB that the CoB’s classification and consideration of academic research has undergone a complete overhaul overhaul since the CoB’s AACSB Peer Review Team placed the College on Accreditation probation in March of 2007...".

Life on the EFIB Plantation: Will George Carter’s “Your Field Only” Rule for EFIB Research be Applied Equally? (May 11, 2007) The subtitle above is the question of the day in the EFIB, and perhaps only time will reveal the answer, if ever. While we wait, reporters at USMNEWS.NET have compiled several tables in order to draw some preliminary findings about how the EFIB’s untenured faculty look against Carter’s unwritten rule about publishing only in one’s field of expertise.

31st& Pearl: Carterspeak (October 12, 2006) "Judging from the evidence coming forth on the 'Black Tuesday' coup that was orchestrated by the EFIB's chair, George Carter, it seems clear to this columnist that Carter cheated to win his way back into sole possession of the personnel decision-making seat...". (For more in the series click here.)

Rock, Paper, Scissors -- Rock! How Hiring (and Firing) in the EFIB has Gone off of the Rails (May 1, 2007) "Recently, a USMNEWS.NET report indicated that a report on hiring in the EFIB was forthcoming. That report has since morphed into a series, out of which this is Part I. This installment in the series details the chaotic human resources situation on the economics side of the EFIB since EFIB Chair George Carter (see below) re-assumed the reigns of the department in August of 2005...".

Rock, Paper, Scissors -- Rock! How Hiring (and Firing) in the EFIB has Gone off of the Rails (May 30, 2007) "Recently, a USMNEWS.NET report indicated that a report on hiring in the EFIB was forthcoming. That report has since morphed into a series, out of which this is Part II. This installment in the series details the chaotic human resources situation on the economics side of the EFIB since EFIB Chair George Carter (see below) re-assumed the reigns of the department in August of 2005...".

Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball? (July 31, 2007) The most common question CoB faculty have asked, after being informed about the enormous raises awarded (in 2007) to new CoB faculty Sami Dakhlia (assistant professor of economics) and Akbar Marvasti (associate professor of economics), has been: What did they do? The following analysis shows the likely motivation behind such a question.

Over 40 Seared (December 6, 2007) "The recent Special Report entitled 'Carter’s Targets: A Compendium' may have shocked some usmnews.net readers. It showed that there have been over 40 “victims” of EFIB chairman George Carter’s malicious tongue in recent years...".

The Apology That Was Not (December 31, 2006) "On Saturday, December 23, 2006, Dr. George Carter, Chairman of EFIB, sent an email to the EFIB Department with copies to the deans and other chairs in the CoB. The email is addressed to “Dean Doty” and pretends to be an apology. The email accomplishes several things, but acting as an apology is not one of them. That is a personal problem for Dr. Carter and Dean Doty. What it does do bears further examination...". For more on the troubled history of ECO, click here.

Operation: Research Rewind, Part 1 (March 25, 2007) "It's the mid- to late-1980s in the College of Business Administration at the University of Southern Mississippi. With former Dean Joseph Greene’s retirement and subsequent replacement by Ty Black, the vision for the CBA was one filled with research and an improved regional and national image...".

Ethics Update, Sept-07 (September 4, 2007) "'Our tradition of excellence continues to reinforce our commitment to . . . a sense of ethical behavior.' Alvin J. Williams, Interim Dean, USM College of Business Administration, 2007 Niroomand Just Like Carter A recent USMNEWS.NET report showed that EFIB chairman George Carter failed to follow the USM Faculty Handbook by allowing John Lambert to vote on the EFIB's faculty governance options for 2006-07. Because Lambert, then a visiting assistant professor of international business, was not part of USM's "Corps of Instruction," at the time, Carter's decision to allow Lambert to participate in the 'Black Tuesday'2006 re-vote appears to have been unethical at best...".

31st & Pearl Friends Win Benefits (October 20, 2008) "The recent story about new CoB Professor of Practice Michael J. Gade highlights a disturbing trend in the CoB’s hiring practices in recent years. That practice concerns the hiring of friends and associates of other relatively recent CoB hires, and we got a good glimpse of what was to come with it when, shortly after the ECO hired Akbar Marvasti, EFIB chair George Carter and former CoB dean Harold Doty pulled Marvasti’s friend Ray Canterbery out of retirement to (mysteriously) join the CoB as a scholar-in-residence...".

The 2010 BBER Economics Seminar is currently set for January 14, 2010 at the Thad Cochran Center on USM's campus. usmnews.net revisits a report concerning the BBER Economics Symposium for 2008.

Was the BBER Economics Symposium a Plus or a Minus? (January 10, 2008) Reports coming from the Bureau of Business Research 10-Jan-08 Symposium indicate that the decision to host the event may have been a net minus for the CoB.

Was George Carter Disingenuous with the Media? An Examination of Carter’s 12 April 2007 Comments to The Student Printz (April 22, 2007) "It's been quite some time, if ever, since the CoB has experienced a week like that of April 9-13, 2007. On 9 April 2007, CoB faculty and staff received an afternoon e-mail informing them that USM Provost Jay Grimes would be meeting with all CoB faculty and staff at 12:30pm on 10 April 2007...".

By George A Look at the Text of George Carter's Denigration of David Duhon (February 15, 2008) EFIB Chair George Carter's excoriation of the promotion to full professor in 2006 of CoB management professor, David Duhon, has been the subject of numerous reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.NET. Even with all of the reporting, and the incredible "What George Carter Thinks" series that has augmented the many reports, USMNEWS.NET readers have not had access to the wider text of Carter's comments about Duhon's promotion. That is, up until now that access has not occurred.

By George, The Second, A Look at the Text of George Carter's Denigration of Dean Harold Doty (March 2, 2008) EFIB Chair George Carter's excoriation former CoB Dean Harold Doty, has been the subject of numerous reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.NET. Even with all of the reporting, and the incredible "What George Carter Thinks" series that has augmented the many reports, USMNEWS.NET readers have not had access to the wider text of Carter's comments about Harold Doty's shortcomings. That is, up until now that access has not occurred.

Carter's Targets A Compendium (December 5, 2007) "The recent 'look back' at EFIB Chair George Carter's disparaging remarks about former CoB Dean Harold Doty, and Carter's public 'apology' that followed, has sparked interest from USMNEWS.NET readers for additional information. One piece of information came recently by way of an audio clip of Carter describing his disgust at the thought of a Doty Administration of the CoB. Aside from that audio, and others like it, perhaps nothing could go further to meet readers' requests than 'Carter's Targets: A Compendium,' which is being brought to you by reporters at USMNEWS.NET...".

The Admission Behind Marvasti’s P&T Gambit (November 6, 2007) "The idea that the CoB’s Akbar Marvasti, an associate professor of economics, sought and received an 'external letter of review' for his promotion-to-full dossier from Charles Sawyer continues to spark interest among usmnews.net readers.

ECONewbies: Institutional Affiliations on the Research of EFIB’s Favorite Sons (August 14, 2007) "A number of reports at USMNEWS.NET have examined the 2007 merit raises of Sami Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti, two of EFIB Chair George Carter’s favorite CoB faculty (and two faculty who joined the CoB in mid August 2006)...".

CoB Economists Boiling Over by Duane Cobb (August 17, 2009)The level of anger coming from the CoB's economists is reaching new heights with every day passing day. Since being informed last week that their programs, and employment lines, are to be cut by USM, members of this group have been posting anonymously to various Internet message boards.

Too Cool for School A Look at the Service Dereliction of the EFIB’s Chairman (September 20, 2007) "Reporters at usmnews.net have received tips indicating that EFIB Chairman George Carter has not been living up to his service responsibilities. Table 1 below presents data on the CoB’s Council of Chairs representatives’ presence/absence at Council of Chairs meetings during the 2005-06 academic year...".

Economoney A Look at the 2008-09 Salaries in ECO (September 10, 2008) 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.

Klinedinst Has Highest Faculty Senate Absenteeism Rate (May 13, 2009) "The USM Faculty Senate has just released its 2008-09 Faculty Senate attendance records and CoB professor of economics Mark Klinedinst shows up with the highest “absenteeism rate” on record.

According to George Carter, What Happens When Faculty “Take on” Academic Administrators? (November 26, 2006) “. . . they [the faculty] generally get ‘stuffed’. . .” George Carter, on what happens when faculty “take on” administrators,

(EFIB News, June 7, 2007) "There has been a lot of speculation in recent days about future additions to the current wave of turnover in the EFIB. For USMNEWS.NET readers who have been away in recent weeks, economics professor Charles Sawyer announced his retirement from USM a few months ago, and just a week or so ago USMNEWS.NET broke the story that finance instructor Michael Madaris is leaving the CoB for William Carey University...".