(April 3, 2007) Heroes and Storytellers In a recent usmnews.net report, readers were treated to some of Management Professor
Stephen Bushardt’s views on rewards, specifically the Hero/Storyteller Culture. This columnist began thinking about exactly who the Heroes and Storytellers currently are in the CoB and who might be next. Remember that Heroes aren’t really heroes; they are simply the individuals who are the poster children for how the corrupt Bushardtian Establishment wants things done. As a word of note, there is a third category added – Hybrid – that denotes individuals who are used in different situations at different times. What follows is a best guess list for each category.
ARTICLES CONCERNING
CHARLES JORDAN, PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY
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(April 13, 2007) Local Academicians Comment on Plagiarism Reporters at usmnews.net have provided a number of reports and analyses of what appears to be at least two major cases of plagiarism within D. Harold Doty’s Administration (2003-2007) of USM’s College of Business. These two cases involve copying by CoB personnel of (1) AACSB documents written by officials at Central Missouri State University and (2) an academic honesty code written by officials at Syracuse University, Doty’s previous employer.
(June 1, 2007) Double and Triple Counting in Accounting What the SEDONA Records of Clark, Jordan and Smith Reveal
A recent trip into the stacks of SEDONA vitae obtained by USMNEWS.NET (via a Mississippi Open Records Act request in spring 2007) revealed some interesting practices in the CoB’s accounting area. Below we have inserted an excerpt from the scholarly activity section of Robert Smith’s (associate professor of accounting) SEDONA vita.
(September 4, 2007) 31st & Pearl CoB's Journal Ranking Process Politicized In last Friday's CoB faculty meeting, interim dean Alvin Williams stated that a new journal ranking was eminent and that the journal ranking committee would begin work at 8 A.M. on Tuesday, September 04, 2007. Should we, observers of the CoB chaos, expect a positive outcome from this newly-discovered dedication to journal ranking? Hardly.
(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.
(October 10, 2007) Once Upon a Time The Fanciful Expressions of Interim SAIS Director Steven Jackson The Aug-07 mobbing of USMNEWS.NET editor, Marc DePree, has been the subject of a number of reports here at USMNEWS.NET Parts I and II of "Memo to Martha" explain in graphic detail the misrepresentations and mischaracterizations in Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams' 21-Aug-07 memo to USM President Martha Saunders requesting that Saunders terminate the employment of DePree, a professor of accounting at USM.