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(January 29, 2009) CoB News, 29 January 2009 Integrity Policy Not Boilerplate, Says The Chronicle According to USMNEWS.net sources, Thomas Bartlett’s 29-Jan-09 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “2 Universities’ Plagiarism Policies Look a Lot Alike” only deteriorates even further the arguments made by the Harold Doty/Farhang Niroomand administration of the CoB (2003-07), that a university’s or college’s academic integrity policy (or, for that matter, AACSB documentation) is simply “boilerplate” and open for use by any and all, even “without proper citation.” In his article (shown below), Bartlett describes how officials at Southern Illinois University adopted in 2007 a 139-word plagiarism definition that is nearly identical the definition adopted by Indiana University just two years earlier.

(January 30, 2009) CoB News, 30 January 2009 “Third Tier Thieves,” by 31st & Pearl Columnist Yesterday’s issue of CoB News showed, through Thomas Bartlett’s 28-Jan-09 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “2 Universities’ Plagiarism Policies Look a lot Alike,” just how badly the CoB’s administrators and their sycophants behaved under former CoB dean Harold Doty. This group, including Doty, George Carter, Farhang Niroomand, Laurie Babin and Charles Jordan actively participated in and/or countenanced the copying, without proper citation, of two other universities’ administrative documents – the Syracuse University b-school’s academic integrity policy and the Central Missouri State University b-school’s AACSB definitions.

(August 11, 2009) Brain Drain Highlights A Look at Recent Publication Successes of post-2003 Former CoBers A recent Internet search turned up some new results concerning journal publication successes of CoB faculty who departed the organization in or after 2003. These are synopsized below.

(January 6, 2010) CoB News 6 January 2010 More Babinesse -- Recent reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net have lauded the efforts of CoB marketing professor Elizabeth LaFleur in getting a paper published in the Journal of Marketing Education. LaFleur, whose research record is spotty at best, was joined on the paper by former CoB marketing professor Laurie Babin, who left the CoB in 2007 when her husband, Barry, took the marketing chairmanship at Louisiana Tech University.

(January 6, 2010) After Doty's Own Heart Former CoBer Laurie Babin Lands what Some Call an Ill-Fitting Professorship Former CoB marketing professor Laurie Babin, currently with the University of Louisiana – Monroe, is now the Nelson Abell Jr. Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship. According to UL-M's University Advancement & External Affairs division, this professorship was established in 1996 to help support the teaching and research activities of an eminent business scholar. Sources tell USMNEWS.net that many current and former CoBers will find it unusual to see Babin (pictured below) referred to as an "eminent business scholar."