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ARTICLES CONCERNING
ERNEST KING, PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS LAW

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(January 8, 2009) The 2008 USMNEWS.net CoB Person of the Year by Duane Cobb 3. Ernest King – 2007 got off to a rocky start for this associate professor of legal studies. First, former CoB dean Harold Doty moved all of the CoB’s LS education program from the EFIB to the SAIS. Next, Doty held a meeting with King to inform him that he was not to engage in any outside consulting and that he was neither “Academically Qualified” nor “Professionally Qualified.”

(January 8, 2009) Does the CoB Now Have a New SAIS Director? The 8-Jan-09 entry in USMNEWS.net's GH Chatter series mentioned that the CoB's accountants may be in "botch it up" mode when it comes to participating in CoB dean Lance Nail's plan to hire six new department chairs as part of the IHL-approved CoB reorganization (that will take effect in 2009-10).

(February 11, 2009) EFIB Bites Fractured Real Estate The CoB's real estate program, which currently resides in the EFIB, is slated to become (beginning 2009-10) part of FINRELS under dean Lance Nail's IHL-approved reorganization of the CoB. Under current EFIB chairman George Carter's stewardship, sources say that the RE program has been largely devastated. A number of events have transpired that have been detrimental to the program: (1) the loss of assistant professor Sean Salter, (2) the separation of business law from the EFIB, (3) the fracturing of RE instruction, and (4) the failure to foster inter-departmental relationships that could benefit the RE initiative.

(February 24, 2009) Missing & Musical Professorships What Happened to the Williams & Parham-Bridges, and Who Should Hold Them? The CoB has a few professorships. The list includes (1) the Morgan Distinguished Professorship in Accounting, (2) the Draughn Distinguished Professorship in Healthcare Marketing, (3) the McCarty Distinguished Professorship in Information Systems, and (4) the Kaetsu Distinguished Professorship in International Business. Not included among this list are the Williams Distinguished Professorship in Minority Entrepreneurship and the Parham-Bridges Distinguished Professorship in Real Estate. These two are omitted from the list of four above not because they aren't funded. No, they have been funded, and in the case of the Parham-Bridges, the funding is substantial and it has been around (i.e., in the USM Foundation) for quite some time.

(March 12, 2009) Behind the 8 Eight Current CoB Faculty USM Doesn't Need to Lose by Duane Cobb As you can tell, I like to rank CoB faculty against one scale or another from time to time (e.g., "the 5 best moves from the CoB," "the 5 worst moves from the CoB," etc.). I'm often told that my CoB faculty ranking essays are both controversial and oft-requested by readers of USMNEWS.NET, and that I should provide more of them when possible. I am doing so again here, and this time my ranking of "the eight (8) current CoB faculty USM doesn't need to lose" is probably no less controversial than past topics.

(May 4, 2009) And the Winner is . . . How Much Faculty Governance is Occurring in the Selection of CoB Dept Chairs? Nail's choice of Donna Davis sounds more like the sort of fait accompli that carried the day in the EFIB throughout the Harold Doty administration of the CoB (2003-07). Given that, one might conclude that a little bit of "faculty governance took the day off" is just what the doctor order vis-à-vis the CoB's all-too-politicized economists. One can, and should, still hope, however, that Nail confines any faculty governance lapses to matters concerning the CoB's economists. If such a policy becomes widespread then CoB faculty will be left wondering just how much, and how good, the "change" being ushered in by the Nail administration really is after all.