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(April 6, 2010) 31st & Pearl CoB Stimulus Package Something CoB dean Lance Nail perhaps failed to properly account for when ousting the CoB’s economics faculty is the combination of their low cost and wide applicability. Under previous b-school deans, the economists were covering undergraduate and graduate economics courses, undergraduate and graduate statistics courses, and undergraduate international business courses. In fact, this was also happening during the early (2008-10) portion of Nail’s current reign. To top this all off, the CoB could, and still can, acquire economists for only 70-something thousand dollars apiece.

(April 15, 2010) Hey Big Spender! Examining the CoB Departure of Daniel Monchuk As the CoB’s economists depart the Joseph Greene Hall stage at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, USMNEWS.net will be examining the research credentials that will be leaving the CoB, if not the institution as a whole. This installment focuses on assistant professor Daniel Monchuk, who was one of the four mostly junior economists who were saved by the forced retirements of five mostly senior CoB economists. Monchuk is scheduled, as of fall 2009, to move from the CoB to USM’s College of Arts & Letters after 2009-10.

(May 11, 2010) . . . breaking news . . . CoAL Hires Green, Monchuk Again HATTIESBURG – According to the 10-May-2010 update to the Fall 2010 USM course schedule guide, the CoAL has found its two additional economists in former CoB economist Trellis Green, and current CoAL economist Daniel Monchuk. Green has apparently accepted CoAL dean Denise von Herrmann’s offer to join the CoAL-ECO team on a temporary basis. Green will cover one section of ECO 101 (3hrs) and two sections of ECO 201 (6hrs), for nine hours total. Monchuk is already employed in the CoAL, though now it looks as though he will become a clinical teaching faculty in CoAL-ECO.

(May 19, 2010) . . . breaking news . . . Hughes, Sequeira Tenured; What About Monchuk? HATTIESBURG – CoB faculty Kirby “Skip” Hughes and Jennifer Sequeira were awarded tenure by the Mississippi IHL at its May 2010 monthly meeting. Hughes was brought into the CoB this past year from Louisiana State University as a professor and director of the CoB School of Accountancy. Thus, he submitted his tenure dossier almost immediately upon arrival, which sources say is an unusual event as far as new CoB hires are concerned. Sequeira is an associate professor of management who was promoted well before submitting a tenure dossier.

(June 15, 2010 . . . breaking news . . . Monchuk Gets Belated Tenure Ruling HATTIESBURG – Outgoing CoB economist Daniel Monchuk was granted tenure during the Mississippi IHL’s June-2010 meeting, one month after 42 other USM faculty received their tenure rulings from the IHL. Along with the belated tenure ruling, Monchuk was also promoted to associate professor of economics.