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(July 14, 2009) Want Work? Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have hinted at various failed job searches carried out by the CoB during 2008-09. Heading into the 2009-10 academic year, what jobs are available in USM's b-school? To answer this question, reporters here at USMNEWS.net visited USM's employment webpages. The following job postings were found.

(July 29, 2009) CoB News, 29 July 2009 Public Relations Wars With various CoB academic programs thought to be on the cutting block in order to meet president Saunders' $2 million cut for the CoB, one would expect a public relations barrage out of these programs to begin/intensify between now and the 1-Sept-09 deadline for terminating tenured faculty.

(August 5, 2009) CoB News, 5 August 2009 CoB Backer Passes Away Long-time CoB supporter Bruce Rossmeyer died recently (in late July-09) while riding his motorcycle in Wyoming. According to WFTV-9, Rossmeyer owned 15 Harley Davidson dealerships across the United States, and is credited with raising millions of dollars for Central Florida charities. Hundreds of people attended the recent Ormond Beach, FL, funeral service. Rossmeyer was 66 years old.

(September 11, 2009) Curiouser and Curiouser With all due respect for, and props to, Lewis Carroll, and Alice, this development in the saga is quite interesting:

(August 6, 2009) GH Chatter Speculation that the CoB's economics program is going to be cut is still just that – speculation – yet stories are circulating around JAG that one of ECO's faculty already has alternative employment secured for the 2010-11 academic year. If chatter like this is accurate, then this CoB economist behaved as advised by a USMNEWS.net op-ed contributor, and protected him/herself from the program-cutting storm to come. Interesting.

(September 24, 2009) CoB News, 24 September 2009 Arnold Becomes Dean at Missouri State Danny Arnold, the current b-school dean at Frostburg State University, was just recently named the new b-school dean at Missouri State University. Long-time readers of USMNEWS.net will recall that Arnold was one of the finalists for the CoB's top position during the 2007-08 search that was won by current CoB dean Lance Nail.

(October 6, 2009) CoB News, 6 October 2009 TM All Over the Place In case you haven't been paying attention lately, the CoB's tourism management department has been all over the place. First came Van Arnold's 2-Oct-09 press release about the 35 CoB TM students who visited the Beau Rivage on 30-Sept-09. That group was accompanied by TM professor Catherine Price and TM instructor Evelyn Green, as the photo below indicates.