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(August 19, 2010) 31st & Pearl Say Anything The message from the Lance Nail administration about the new “national ranking” for the CoB shows the lengths that 21st Century university administrators will go to convince the public that something positive is being done with their tax dollars.

(September 12, 2010) Special Report The Nail-von Herrmann Recommendations Proposals from USM’s CoB & CoAL The lack of information surrounding the latest budget cuts (totaling $15 million) at USM has only worsened the mood on the Hattiesburg and Long Beach campuses since late Aug-2010. Recently, however, the Martha Saunders administration began releasing some of the details of the process leading up to its decision to terminate 29 tenured and tenure-track faculty. The insert below presents the reduction proposals made by CoB dean Lance Nail (in Aug-2010).

(September 23, 2010) . . . BREAKING NEWS. . . CoB Being Overrun by Administration Spending Sources are reporting that Kirby E. "Skip" Hughes, the CoB's School of Accountancy director since 2009, is being paid $200,000 per year. Many recent reports about Hughes have indicated that he likely earned $150,000, while a few speculated a salary range of $150,000 to $175,000.

(September 23, 2010) . . . breaking news . . . Tisdale Story Expanding HATTIESBURG – The recent news that the Lance Nail administration of the CoB has hired James Tisdale, pictured below, to serve as the CoB’s new “director of external relations” has some USM faculty upset about what is being done with the institution’s existing budget in this time of crisis.

(September 25, 2010) CoB Administrators Feasting on USM's Budget To make for a story that is rapidly beginning to resemble that of the over�]paid city leaders of Bell, California, sources are reporting that some of the CoB's middle managers are banking salaries that exceed those of some of USM's college deans.

(October 12, 2010) 31st & Pearl It Ain’t Martyrdom Operating on the premise that many USM faculty do not know how budget cut preparations are being made in colleges other than their own, if even then, it’s time to shine some light on one of the practices that CoB administrators have employed in order to shelter certain favored faculty from termination

(October 13, 2010) “Tuitionation without Benefitation” A Guest Editorial Much has been said by the Martha Saunders administration about focusing USM’s diminishing state dollars on academic and other programs that are aimed at large numbers of students, not just smallish cliques.