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(September 18, 2008) CoB News, 18 September 2008 More “Jungle Rules” Fallout? As CoB finance professor James Lindley so eloquently explained to former USM provost Jay Grimes during a CoB-wide convocation on 10-April-2007, when college-level administrators see the university’s central administrators choosing to disregard the rules, college-level administrators will soon begin to make the same choice. This on-the-mark “Lindley Logic” extends on down the line, from college-level administrators to professors, and then from professors to their students.

(October 14, 2008) Special Report Hub FINs An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials With a number of tenure and promotion decisions looming large in the finance section of the EFIB over the coming months, USMNEWS.net reporters are taking a look at the quality of the economics and finance research coming from the CoB’s FIN faculty.

(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.

(April 14, 2009) Our Most Talented Colleagues A Look at the Numbers This series has presented what sources refer to as Dakhlia's ruse in a new light by showing that the talent lies with those faculty who had been targeted by CoB administrators and their supporters, such as Dakhlia -- i.e., the ones Topping spoke for. It is in the number of unique A-level journal publications that the real abilities of "our most talented colleagues" shines through. This final installment (part 10) in the series summarizes previous results, using Table 1 below. It indicates that for two-thirds of the CoB, the reign of D. Harold Doty meant little short of destruction, with some units experiencing losses in unique A-level journal publications per person in the 2.7 to 3.1 range. Of the one-third of the CoB still holding its own, ACC and FIN are being held togother almost solely by Marc DePree and James Lindley, respectively. These are CoB faculty held in disdain by Doty (et al.). The other unit, DS, has maintained itself despite past attempts by Doty to eliminate it altogether.