ARTICLES CONCERNING
LANCE NAIL, DEAN
(August 26, 2009) Why is a new College of Business building needed? Dean Lance Nail, like former deans Doty and
Gunther before him, has been chasing the money to find donors for a new business building. There are rumors he has
been somewhat successful, but no announcement has been made about such money. Is there any sense in sending out
your business dean to raise money while the college faculty is being partially eliminated? Who will survive to be in the
hypothetical new building? How is that an incentive for donors to give? Is Dr. Saunders new motto for the CoB like the
old Red Cross slogan that said “Give so that more will live”?
(September 16, 2009) GH Chatter Will ECO faculty attend CoB dean Lance Nail's "State of the CoB" presentation on
Friday, 18-Sept-09? Some say "yes," others say "no."There seems to be an even split between those who think they will
not show and those who think they will and that they will cause a scene. Of course, the latter promises to be a good
show. Some are hoping that Sami Dakhlia will deliver a proclamation condemning CoB faculty for not standing up to
Nail and allowing the ECO major to be nixed from the CoB curriculum.
(September 15, 2009) Nail to Address Faculty in a “State of the CoB” Meeting SoCoB Meeting to be Held on 18
September 2009 Via a recent e-mail message, CoB dean Lance Nail has called a CoB-wide faculty meeting for Friday,
18- Sept-09. According to Nail, “. . . we need to have a faculty meeting to discuss the current state of the college . . .”
Nail’s e-mail went even further, stating that “[t]his week should bring clarity to our budget situation for the current and
future fiscal years that I hope to share with you . . .”
(September 21, 2009) CoB News, 21 September 2009 Only 6 BAC Chairs? CoB dean Lance Nail recently informed CoB
faculty that previous CoB administrators were essentially spending money that didn’t exist on the CoB’s
BAC/Partnership Society Professorships.
(September 21, 2009) CoB Dean on Mississippi’s Budget Crisis A Look Back at the “State of the CoB” Address In his
18-Sept-09 “State of the CoB” address, CoB dean Lance Nail expounded upon Mississippi’s budget crisis of
2008-present. Nail told CoB faculty assembled in JAG that Mississippi’s new IHL Commissioner Hank Bounds expects
to oversee a 10% cut in college/university funds in each of the next two fiscal years – 2011 and 2012. That would bring
the total state funding cuts to USM and its brethren to somewhere between 25% and 30% over just three years.
Currently, USM academic deans are working on providing the Martha Saunders administration of USM with a
mid-year cut of 3.5%, which for the CoB will come to around $350,000. Also, each of USM’s colleges is expected to
contribute a staff line to the cause. Sources are telling USMNEWS.net to expect hiring freezes throughout the
university, and a suspension of university travel, etc.
