(May 11, 2010) . . . breaking news . . . Provost Lyman Implies CFO Morgan was Relieved of Duty HATTIESBURG – USM provost Robert Lyman was questioned by the USM faculty senate on 7-May-2010 about the recent “resignation” of Joe Morgan from the position of USM chief financial officer. Lyman’s response implied that Morgan did not resign, but was instead relieved of CFO duties, though Lyman did state that he did not believe that Morgan was involved in the USM Research Foundation/Pinion Properties scandal. According to Lyman:

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(June 30, 2010) GH Chatter Chatter has it that some of the recent “last week w/ USMNEWS.net” predictions are shared by some CoB faculty. Regular readers will recall that the predictions stated that USM provost Robert Lyman will be pushed aside by president Martha Saunders when the current budget troubles are cleared up, and that some unexpected CoB faculty eliminations will occur during this summer’s budget cutting process.

(September 14, 2010) Crack in the Foundation? USM Associate Provost William Powell Separates Himself from the Rest As The Hattiesburg American’s higher education reporter Ed Kemp makes clear in his 14-Sept-2010 news story about the budget cuts, USM associate provost William Powell appears to be distancing himself from the finger pointing being done by his boss, USM provost Robert Lyman, and that of Lyman’s boss, USM president Martha Saunders.

(September 14, 2010) . . . breaking news . . . Lyman in No Rush to Set Up Appeals Hearings HATTIESBURG – As The Hattiesburg American higher education reporter Ed Kemp’s 14-Sept-2010 news story about the USM budget crisis indicates, USM provost Robert Lyman has joined the Martha Saunders administration chorus by blaming (1) last year’s (FY 2011) 10+ faculty terminations on the Academic Planning Group, and (2) this year’s (FY 2012) nearly 30 faculty terminations on the University Priorities Committee.

(September 21, 2010) A Brief History of Saunders’ “Lease” of Airplane N777AQ During a Recession Part 2 Why Is There So Little Trust In Leaders? We organize the history by documenting representations made by President Saunders and Provost Lyman in their report to a Faculty Senate meeting on December 5, 2008 (page 2, para. 7).