ARTICLES CONCERNING
MARK KLINEDINST,
FORMER PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
(October 4, 2010) 31st & Pearl One Heckuva Plan It has been about one year since the Martha Saunders
administration agreed to a plan put forth by the USM b-school economics faculty that would allow the unit,
which had recently been eliminated by the Saunders administration, to survive as a smaller group over in
USM’s liberal arts college.
(November 29, 2010) The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 29-Nov-2010 “Teaching Out” of ECO Getting
More BizarreAll one has to do is read USMNEWS.net’s . . . breaking news . . . story about USM's plan for
“teaching out” the now-defunct B.S. in economics to understand that the institution is at a crossroads when it
comes to maintaining academic integrity in the face of massive budget cuts totaling $25 million over FY11 and
FY12. Now, new evidence is emerging regarding the “teaching out” of ECO that makes USM student Zach
Mansell’s account look positive bycomparison.