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(March 7, 2010) 31st & Pearl Skip Hughes' Trap The USMNEWS.net audio library received some new volumes recently. These came courtesy of new accounting director, Kirby E. "Skip" Hughes. I fully expect these volumes to be checked out regularly by USMNEWS.net reporters. They are full of juicy bits, and ones that will surely put more light on the administrative deficiencies that have been hounding USM for years and years.

(March 8, 2010) 31st & Pearl The Incredible Shrinking Dome Over in the CoB, new accounting director Skip Hughes is running amuck, telling faculty that he’s not committed to honoring the CoB’s relatively new (2008) journal ranking system. Hughes’ excuse? He got on the train when it was halfway down the track. What ever. Hughes appears to be joining a long line of CoB administrators like George Carter, Steven Jackson, and others who helped pull the college into the quicksand of lower tier institutions.

(March 18, 2010) Deck the Hall Tree A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler New CoB accounting director, Kirby E. “Skip” Hughes, joined the CoB this year from Louisiana State University. When he arrived in Hattiesburg from LSU’s E.J. Ourso College of Business, he brought several “key initiatives” with him. These have only recently been widely distributed, and one of the prominent ones is “a dress code of sorts.” As Hughes recently explained to USM public relations staff, “[o]ne of the first things I noticed was all the baseball caps being worn in class.”

(April 4, 2010) The Three-Tiered CoB School of Accounting The potential addition of University of Alabama accountant Michael Dugan to the CoB’s School of Accounting does, as the recent . . . Breaking News . . . report indicates, create a three-tiered accounting school, at least as far as A-level publications goes. At the top of the SoA – the Tier 1 faculty – are two current CoB accountants, and, of course, Dugan (should he join the SoA). Their relatively high number of A-level contributions are pictured below.

(April 5, 2010) Already One of Them How Coming to USM has Transformed SoA Director Skip Hughes As many reports here at USMNEWS.net have revealed, new CoB School of Accounting Director Kirby E. “Skip” Hughes II came to USM (from LSU) with a notable research record. However, shortly after arriving he went on the record stating that he would not necessarily commit to important pieces of the CoB faculty handbook – Enhancing Faculty Productivity. This transformation was not new; others have transformed similarly. It also did not shock many CoB faculty, as the pages of USMNEWS.net are covered in similar revelations involving others.

(April 6, 2010) 31st & Pearl CoB Stimulus Package Something CoB dean Lance Nail perhaps failed to properly account for when ousting the CoB’s economics faculty is the combination of their low cost and wide applicability. Under previous b-school deans, the economists were covering undergraduate and graduate economics courses, undergraduate and graduate statistics courses, and undergraduate international business courses. In fact, this was also happening during the early (2008-10) portion of Nail’s current reign. To top this all off, the CoB could, and still can, acquire economists for only 70-something thousand dollars apiece.