(October 22, 2010) CoB News 22-October-2010 “Good Morning Class, I’m Professor Tisdale . . .” The recent news that CoB dean Lance Nail hired James Tisdale as the CoB’s new “director of external relations” was surprising to some in the CoB. That news was compounded by the revelation that Tisdale’s salary is set at $90,000 per year, and that his father served on the USM Foundation Board.

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LANCE NAIL, DEAN

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(December 10, 2010) The Top 10 CoB Stories of 2010 By Duane Cobb Each year at about this time I provide USMNEWS.net my top ten news items involving USM’s business school for the year. This is Part 3 in that countdown for the top CoB stories of 2010.

3. Nail Friend, James Tisdale, Joins CoB – The news that CoB dean Lance Nail hired friend, James Tisdale, to be the CoB’s new director of external relations, of all things, was disheartening to many USM followers. The institution was, and still is, struggling with an economic crisis that has its fiscal situation in disarray.

(December 19-29, 2010) Holiday Predictions for the New Year: Following close on the heels of Duane Cobb’s annual reports on the Top 10 CoB tories of 2010, usmnews.net has begun to receive Holiday Predictions for the New Year.
6. Dean Lance Nail may actually do what he promised a couple of years ago: “Message from the Dean. Coming soon. Please check back later.” See, http://www.usm.edu/business/about/dean_message.php. Or, he may wait a few more years to offer a message. Incompetence is hard to predict.

(January 14, 2011) Dear USMNEWS.net, Do you have any FOIA reports concerning Lance Nail's fundraising efforts for the new building? That news is scarcer than non-video sightings of the president on campus.

(January 18, 2011) CoB News 18-January-2011 Another Secretary Bounced from CoB Dean’s Office
Sources tell USMNEWS.net that Marie Baker, a secretary in CoB dean Lance Nail’s office, has been shipped out of that office.

(February 8, 2011) CoB News 8-February-2011 Nail’s Hand All over USM Administration’s Growth Report after report here at USMNEWS.net has shown how administration in the CoB, and at USM, has continued to grow throughout the state’s fiscal difficulties that began more than two years ago. Now, through the latest installment in Van Arnold’s “Catching Up” series, we learn that CoB dean Lance Nail has his hand in the administrative growth that has occurred at both of these levels within the institution.