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(January 24, 2010) Skipping Out? According to an announcement in the Jackson FREE PRESS, Mark Klinedinst (pictured below) is organizing the 27-Jan-2010 "Mississippi Education Rally" that is being sponsored by the Mississippi Statewide Consortium for the Improvement of Education (MSCIE). The rally is aimed at supporting the full funding of education through the use of federal stimulus dollars, and it is being held at the Mississippi Capitol. This notice comes at about the same time as the publicity received by Klinedinst from Ed Kemp's 24-Jan-2010 The Hattiesburg American report entitled "Tenure Under Fire?"

(February 2, 2010) Mark Klinedinst's Day Off The 27-Jan-10 education rally held on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol has come and gone, and it appears as though CoB economics professor Mark Klinedinst took the day off from classes, as predicted in a recent USMNEWS.net report (Skipping Out?). Klinedinst appears in photo from The Student Printz shown below, addressing the (only) 36 students, teachers, professors and parents who gathered in Jackson on that late 27-Jan-10 Wednesday afternoon.

(February 10, 2010) Klinedinst Continues to Soar CoB economics professor Mark Klinedinst (shown below) continues to engage USM president Martha Saunders (shown below) in one political battle after another. He also, as reports indicate, continues to hold his own.

(March 25, 2010) Guess who is Scrambling for a Vacated ECO Line A Guest Column by Susan Greene-Lewis The ink is barely dry on reports that the CoB’s Sami Dakhlia, associate professor of economics, is leaving USM for a university in France and already there is a race to recycle his salary line. Or is it former CoB ECO faculty Deniz Gevrek’s old line some want? In terms of specifics, it doesn’t really matter at all – there’s money in the trough and the usual, old resource hogs are lining up to get at it.

(April 6, 2010) GH Chatter ECO professor Mark Klinedinst has been all over campus lately talking about USM’s “sacred cows.” Some of these might exist in the form of accounting instructors, so it’s possible Klinedinst is campaigning in the faculty senate against them. Chatter is that Klinedinst has secured enough of the Deniz Gevrek-Sami Dakhlia money to retain his post at USM. That must be wonderful news to ECOer George Carter, who is reportedly fuming, and has been for months, about the “subterfuge” of summer 2009.

(April 6, 2010) 31st & Pearl CoB Stimulus Package Something CoB dean Lance Nail perhaps failed to properly account for when ousting the CoB’s economics faculty is the combination of their low cost and wide applicability. Under previous b-school deans, the economists were covering undergraduate and graduate economics courses, undergraduate and graduate statistics courses, and undergraduate international business courses. In fact, this was also happening during the early (2008-10) portion of Nail’s current reign. To top this all off, the CoB could, and still can, acquire economists for only 70-something thousand dollars apiece.