(September 17, 2009) CoB News, 17 September 2009 Will Monchuk Get Tenure? Ed Kemp's recent report, linked
above, notes that CoB assistant professor of economics Daniel Monchuk is in his sixth year at USM. That means that
Monchuk will submit his tenure and promotion packet this academic year, and that it will move through the chain of
command (governance) inside USM's CoB. According to sources, Monchuk may yet represent another opportunity
for USM to achieve some savings, as he has what is reportedly one of the historically weaker tenure applications in
ECO. Denial of tenure in Monchuk's case would save the institution another $90,000 to $100,000 in salary and
fringes.
ARTICLES CONCERNING
DR. DANIEL MONCHUK, FORMER ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
(September 17, 2009) What CoAL Needs to Know OVERLOOKED DETAILS ABOUT THE MOVE OF ECO TO
ARTS & LETTERS As USM administrators prepare to move the CoB’s economics major, and its remaining
economists, over to the CoAL, there are some oft-overlooked details that need to be brought to the fore. Some of these
are the subject of this new, multi-part USMNEWS.net series entitled “What CoAL Needs to Know.” This is Part 2.
(September 22, 2009) What They're Getting A LOOK AT THE ECO RESEARCH CREDENTIALS HEADING TO
CoAL A number of USMNEWS.net readers are wondering about the research credentials, particularly vis-a-vis
compensation levels, of the four CoB economists are heading over to the CoAL to begin 2010-11. These data are now
presented below, with salaries + benefits levels found by multiplying the published USM salaries by 1.2 (and
rounded to nearest thousand). As you can see in Table 1, the four departing economists carry a fiscal burden, which
now falls on CoAL dean Denise von Herrmann, of about $400,000.
(October 26, 2009) CoB News, 26 October 2009 ECONLINE The CoB's economists appear to be loading up on online
courses in the spring of 2010. Associate professor Sami Dakhlia, who is reportedly taking a leave of absence during
spring 2010, has been assigned one online section of ECO 336. The course is capped at 100, and currently has 22
enrollees. Sources indicate that Dakhlia is likely being paid as an overload (from $6,000 to $8,000) for teaching the
course, or he has been hired on an adjunct-type basis for even greater compensation (possibly on a per-student
basis).
(March 24, 2010) Bachelor of Arts in Marvasti & Monchuk (M&M) The 2009-10 elimination of economics from
USM’s CoB sent only four of the unit’s 10 faculty to the College of Arts & Letters. Of the other six, five were forced
into retirement and one was fired. The four who survived (in the CoAL) were Sami Dakhlia, Deniz Gevrek, Akbar
Marvasti and Daniel Monchuk. However, before the move could be made (on 1-July-10), Gevrek surprised the CoB
with a Christmas holidays 2009 departure for Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi.