ARTICLES CONCERNING
KIRBY "SKIP" E. HUGHES, PROFESSOR, DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY

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(December 21, 2009) Dear Rod, I bring sad tidings on this holiday. “Things are going to change around here” and your research and service efforts are not accounting. Your annual evaluation will suffer…. well, let’s look at the details before we get to your annual evaluation.

(December 21, 2009) Dear Rod, I bring sad tidings on this holiday. “Things are going to change around here” and your research and service efforts are not accounting. Your annual evaluation will suffer…. well, let’s look at the details before we get to your annual evaluation.

(December 22, 2009) Skip gets another administrative assistant As reported on usmnews.net, Melissa McIntyre has departed the confines of the Skip Hughes-led School of Accounting for a better position on campus. Usmnews.net has learned that Skip tried to talk Lisa Mader, BEDS secretary, into coming down to Accounting but she wanted to think about it and that did not sit well with Skip.

(December 22, 2009) “I’m not going to commit.” Question: What is it that School of Accountancy Director Skip Hughes is “not going to commit” to? Answer: The College of Business and USM Faculty Handbooks.I was surprised to learn that if a colleague earns a publication in an A-level journal as classified in CoB’s Journal Ranking, Director Hughes will not support a score between 4 and 5 (out of a possible 5) for research as specified in the CoB Handbook. How does a colleague gain his support, then, if Skip’s “feelings” are not consistent with the rules? What will Skip commit to? He will commit to supporting a Naval Service colleague, even if he is a self-admitted felon, convicted by his own words of corrupting the judicial system. “Richard F. Scruggs has admitted to conspiring to bribe Circuit Court Judge Henry L. Lackey.” (http://www.legalnewsline.com/content/img/f213805/scruggs_memo.pdf, see, page 4.)

(January 11, 2010) Dear Accounting Colleagues, To sum up Director Hughes’ “feelings” about research, “if you aim as high as you can and accounting is in the title of the journal, I think that you would be safe.”

(January 17, 2010) It’s Your Academic Integrity Policy, Now Dear Skip, We tried years ago to have a dialogue with SoA/CoB/USM administrators, now chronicled in “Without Proper Citation.” It was and continues to be an education/learning opportunity. We consider that your participation in ongoing actions to prohibit my speech chronicled in “Without Proper Citation” is also an education/learning opportunity regardless of your efforts to illicitly take my tenure and position at SoA/CoB/USM. Keep in mind “Without Proper Citation” is less about plagiarism than it is intolerance of speech with which you and other administrators at SoA/CoB/USM disagree.