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(August 20, 2009) Klinedinst vs. von Herrmann How the Elimination of ECO is Affecting Relationships at USM The big news around USM may be the recent drop from Tier III to Tier IV status (as per U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2010), but the battle brewing between economics professor Mark Klinedinst (pictured below) and CoAL dean Denise von Herrmann did not escape most readers of the 20-Aug-09 issue of The Student Printz.

(September 1, 2009) 31st & Pearl Now is the Time for Martyrdom? Whether or not the ECO group’s plan to save the four untenured professors will work, and that is by sacrificing the tenured professors through retirement, remains to be seen. One thing is certain – if former CoB associate dean and economics professor Farhang Niroomand were still around and on the block, he never would have gone for it. Judging by the documents available in USMNEWS.net’s library, Niroomand hated “martyrdom,” and surely would have opposed Mark Klinedinst’s plan to send five, or six with Niroomand, ECO faculty into forced retirement so that four others could continue their USM careers uninterrupted. We can see the e-mail’s subject line – “Now is not the time for martyrdom!”

(September 10, 2009) 31st & Pearl On Borrowed Chatter In case you hadn’t noticed already, USMNEWS.net’s GH Chatter series has been on overdrive lately, all in an effort to stay on top of the stories circulating about the CoB’s economists.

(September 11, 2009) How Good are the CoB Economists? A Look Back Across the Recession and Financial Crisis for Answers
By now USMNEWS.net readers are well aware that USM notified its constituencies back in August-2009 that the institution was seriously considering eliminating all of its b-school economics majors and the 9 tenured/tenure-track faculty who accompany and service them. That decision, we were told, was the result of the economic fallout from the recession that has hammered Mississippi and the rest of the country for some time. USM began implementing multi-million budget cuts back in the fall of 2009, and is expected to face cuts of up to $12 million over the next few months.

(September 30, 2009) CoB News, 30 September 2009 Klinedinst's Fading 15 Minutes CoB economics professor Mark Klinedinst has been on what USMNEWS.net sources have referred to as the ride of his life since early August of 2009. It was at that time that the Martha Saunders administration of USM warned the USM family that serious budget cuts were in the institution's near future.

(October 19, 2009) CoB News, 19 October 2009 Things are Bad In the “things are bad” file, CoB faculty are urged to attend future meetings of USM’s faculty senate if they are interested in just how disastrous the Mississippi budget situation will be in 2011 and 2012 for USM.