Over the past several years, usmnews.net has published literally thousands of reports from current and former faculty
who share my belief that USM has ineffectively and inefficiently employed far too much of its resources, both in terms
of money and people. The purpose of usmnews.net is not to provide a public relations view. That is amply supplied by
The University of Southern Mississippi's public relations department.
Chauncey M. DePree, Jr. Editor
marcdepree@gmail.com (Click here for editorial policy.)
Chauncey M. DePree, Jr. Editor
marcdepree@gmail.com (Click here for editorial policy.)
Fiction
More than 11,840,000 hits
"The fun money is private money.
At Southern Miss, I've got state
dollars and I've got Foundation
dollars. It's real easy to tell them
apart. I tell people I've got two
checkbooks. I've got my booze
account and my non-booze account.
Out of the state money I'm pretty
constrained what in I can do. ...
Foundation dollars, that's when I
take my money out of my booze
account, I can pretty much do
anything I want with it." D. Harold
Doty, former Dean, College of
Business, University of Southern
Mississippi, current Dean,
University of Texas at Tyler
In August 2011, Martha
Saunders smiled as she
presented Galaxy Tabs to
selected students. Three
senior adminstrators were
suspended. Two are no longer
employees of the University.
Saunders subsequently
declared herself "tired" and
resigned as president. (For
more reports re "Tabletgate",
click here.)
May 24, 2013
Administrators' Advantage
reprint At the Root of it All HOW MARTHA SAUNDERS’ SALARY COMPARES TO JOHN Q PROF’S SALARY
Updated 23-May-2013 HELP WANTED A Look at Business Dean Openings from Around the Country
MPB Online: "Dr. Rodney Bennett ... Wwas the right man for the job the moment he read his resume."
reprinted by request I Will Never Be Alone Behind Closed Doors With An Administrator At USM Ever Again.
A Few of the Many Comments When EaglePosters Learned Rodney Bennett would be USM President
For readers who have requested
quicker access to reports about Dr.
Saunders' airplane, please click here.
A good place to start is Cost Per Flight
Hour which includes links to the
detailed cost and usage data obtained
through open records requests.
usmnews.net
A student, who frequently sports an easy smile, has a
secret. And he's learned to keep a secret, the hard way.
No matter what, no matter that he could use help, no
matter how tempted he is to trust a friend, he tells no
one. For good reason. Anyone, even a friend, would stop
him, kill him, if necessary. TobaccoPharm.
It's only human to be curious. And, what is hidden is the
most tempting. Like the personal lives of those who lord
it over us for so many of our most formative years:
Teachers! The most influential among them are
university professors. Like to peek in on how university
faculty and administrators behave in their natural
habitat? Listen in on their private conversations?
Glimpse what they're really up to? Rufus McCoy
instantly beams you to the exotic and secret world of
academe. FREE to Amazon Prime members.
Critical of Doo-Wop? Let's hope not. (Great
Doo-Wop at the IP last Friday.)
Marc DePree, Editor, usmnews.net
Marc DePree, Editor, usmnews.net
Academic Research
Other current research by Chauncey M.
DePree, Jr., DBA is available at Amazon.com:
Plagiarism Is Now Ethically Acceptable, AACSB Affirms Copying Other Members' Submission Documents "Without Proper Citation"
Other current research can be downloaded free from SSRN (several projects are Top Ten downloads on SSRN):
"A General Theory to Test Social Reality"
"A Sound Foundation: The FASB Got Its Conceptual Framework Right, The IASB Didn't"
"An Evolution of Form and Content: A Practical Guide to Use of the FASB's Conceptual Framework"
Plagiarism Is Now Ethically Acceptable, AACSB Affirms Copying Other Members' Submission Documents "Without Proper Citation"
Other current research can be downloaded free from SSRN (several projects are Top Ten downloads on SSRN):
"A General Theory to Test Social Reality"
"A Sound Foundation: The FASB Got Its Conceptual Framework Right, The IASB Didn't"
"An Evolution of Form and Content: A Practical Guide to Use of the FASB's Conceptual Framework"
"VIRGINIA TECH DANGER!"
Echoes of Mississippi Supremacists
at
University of Southern Mississippi
Echoes of Mississippi Supremacists
at
University of Southern Mississippi
Click here for reports from May 1, 2013 - May 31, 2013
May 14, 2013
Niroomand Revisited Universities Recycle Problematic Administrators
Faculty who've been around for a decade or so are familiar with
university practice of recycling administrators. The disservice of
recycling is inadequate public history known about them.
May 15, 2013
Oops, I forgot to explain why we reprinted "I'm not going to commit." The
Clarion Ledger recently reported that "Disbarred lawyer Dickie Scruggs
loses appeal, asks to finish out sentence."
Questions from usmnews.net's readers, Question 7: Just looking at your
blog, it seems like you spend a lot of time out of Hattiesburg. Any plans
to relocate?
May 16, 2013
Top Conversations "Top Conversations on The Chronicle of Higher
Education" are mailed to subscribers. The following is a recent Top
Conversation:
Dear usmnews.net, While I was pleased to hear that an anonymous
donor had given $1 million to beautify the campus, does that mean that
nobody has stepped forward to pay off the sports deficit? [$1.5 million
announced by AD Hammond or the $2.1 payout to former Coach Ellis
Johnson]?
May 17, 2013
A public discussion I posted the following comment in response to this
morning's report on usmnews.net being taken down at The Chronicle of
Higher Education: The comment this thread is based on was taken down
and the only reason was "This comment was flagged for review." I, and I
assume other readers, would benefit from a discussion about why the
decision was made.
My comment was taken down. I put it back up. It was taken down, again.
And I put it back up, again...The Chronicle of Higher Education reported
an article on May 15, 2013 entitled "Avoiding a Failed Search" by Diane
M. Fennig.
May 20, 2013
TobaccoPharm Excerpt (Complete book for sale at Amazon) What Karl
Hauer was about to do would have been absolutely unthinkable a couple
of months ago. It was unseemly to move so quickly after Anna's death,
but the time to strike a deal was today. Otherwise, Philip Windsor
[Windsor Tobacco Company] would find another geneticist. Although
Windsor might not be able to get production going as fast as Hauer and
Windsor could together, Windsor could, in time, do it.
The BSD Pay Project A Compilation of the Salaries of Southern B-School
Deans Recent reporting here at USMNEWS.net regarding the salaries of
two former USM b-school administrators – Harold Doty, a former dean,
and Farhang Niroomand, a former associate dean – has drawn interest
among USMNEWS.net readers.
May 21, 2013
reprint Court Records Report Stephen Bushardt's Spousal and Alcohol
Abuse "...On July 27, 2009 Stephen [Bushardt] had been drinking, was
staggering and had slurring of his speech...Stephen was screaming at me
[Stephen's wife] and using profanity calling me a F_____, along with
other things. I was very frightened...I entered the house and Stephen
screamed, "I feel violent" and grabbed my shoulders and started to shake
me and threaten to beat us and kill me...I called the Lamar County
Sheriff's Department...".
To Journal Editors Who Don't Give A D**N An article from the May 17,
2013 Chronicle of Higher Education, you might find interesting, was
entitled "It's Time for Journals to Be Author-Reviewed." "Wouldn't it be
better if we could publicly share such experiences [unprofessional or
incompetent editors] with all those who might benefit? ...".
May 22, 2013
A Few of the Many Comments When EaglePosters Learned Rodney
Bennett would be USM President
reprint I Will Never Be Alone Behind Closed Doors With An
Administrator At USM Ever Again. “He [Niroomand] was very agitated.
He was very red faced. And I remember him pointing his finger at me
and saying, “I ought to kick your ass.” At that moment, I said I will never
be alone behind closed doors with an administrator at USM ever again.
Never again will I without some sort of protection for my self...".
May 23, 2013
MPB Online: "Dr. Rodney Bennett ... was the right man for the job the
moment he read his resume." Consider the following quote reported on
mpbonline.org › News. Feb 7, 2013 by MPB 's Lawayne Childrey: "Ed
Blakeslee, President of the Board of Trustees [IHL] for the State College
Board says he knew Bennett was the right man for the job the moment
he read his resume."
Updated 23-May-2013 HELP WANTED A Look at Business Dean
Openings from Around the Country With four current/former CoB
deans moving around in the academic world, some USMNEWS.net
readers have requested an ongoing report that tracks current b-school
dean openings. Long-time readers of USMNEWS.net are aware that
Faye Gilbert is the current dean of the CoB, having replaced Lance
Nail, who is now the business dean at Texas Tech University.
May 24, 2013
reprint what usmnews.net was reporting a year ago At the Root of it All
HOW MARTHA SAUNDERS’ SALARY COMPARES TO JOHN Q
PROF’S SALARY What sources refer to as the recent meltdown of the
Martha Saunders administration of USM has brought a large spotlight to
all things USM these days. Higher ed’s main publication, The Chronicle
of Higher Education, recently released the latest (2011) data on public
university presidents’ salaries and other information. As part of that
release, TCHE produced the following chart:
Administrators' Advantage See a report in today's Chronicle of Higher
Education: "Texas Community College Seeks Dismissal of Tenured
Professor." My views reported in the Comment section: "Don't expect
administrators and their ally faculty to proclaim they are firing a
colleague because they disagree with their target's speech...".