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(April 27, 2010) CoB News 27 April 2010 Moving on Up - The CoB’s accounting faculty will soon be moving up to the top floor of Joseph Greene Hall. Having the accountants housed with the other faculty will seem like a culture change, particularly for the accounting faculty, who have been relatively isolated on the first floor of the building for a number of years. Now their comings and goings (i.e., who works, and who doesn’t) will be known to the rest of the CoB’s faculty and staff.

(May 5, 2010) Holding Class Outside? A LOOK AT TEACHING QUALITY ACROSS THE MAGNOLIA STATE Once again USMNEWS.net contributors are on the trail of teaching quality at USM and other senior higher ed institutions in Mississippi. Table 1 below shows the Top 10 institutions, rated by instruction quality (using RateMyProfessors).

(May 6, 2010) 31st & Pearl Unified But Unequal The two branches of the University of Southern Mississippi have never been equal.

(May 6, 2010) Is CoAL-ECO Coming Apart at the Seams? Comments from von Herrmann and McBride Indicate as Much Samantha Schott’s 4-May-10 report for The Student Printz entitled “The university must hire two new economics professors” reveals some of the details of difficulties being faced by CoAL dean Denise von Herrmann in keeping the fledgling CoAL-ECO program together.

(May 11, 2010) CoB News, May 11 2010 Tourism Management Starters-Yahoo.com’s Charles Purdy released the Worst-Paying College Degrees for 2010, and mixed up in a group including theology, social work, drama, horticulture, music and others is “hospitality and tourism.” The reported starting salary for this area is $37,000, with a mid-career salary of $54,300. This is only slightly better than a major in education.

(May 11, 2010) CoB News, May 11 2010 Tourism Management Starters-Yahoo.com’s Charles Purdy released the Worst-Paying College Degrees for 2010, and mixed up in a group including theology, social work, drama, horticulture, music and others is “hospitality and tourism.” The reported starting salary for this area is $37,000, with a mid-career salary of $54,300. This is only slightly better than a major in education.

(May 18, 2010) Sayre Saves the Day; von Herrmann in Negative Light New Information on CoAL-ECO’s Staffing Problems Based on recent updates to the USM fall 2010 schedule guide from the USM registrar, it seems that the CoAL has finally resolved its CoAL-ECO staffing problems for fall semester 2010. The final opening, an honors section of ECO 101, will be covered by Edward Sayre, an assistant professor of international development in USM’s CoAL.

(May 28, 2010) USM’s Oil Spill Response Team – Not a CoBer in Sight Shortly after the spring 2010 oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, USM president Martha Saunders put together a USM oil spill response team. That team consists of “experts” from the USM academic community, and includes almost 40 USM faculty. However, among this group of faculty one will not find a single CoBer, not even if the economics faculty (i.e., Trellis Green, Akbar Marvasti and Daniel Monchuk) are included amongst the CoB bunch.