(August 10, 2007) 1979 A Look Back at the CoB’s AACSB Application of 30 Years Ago USMNEWS.NET has obtained a
copy of the USM College of Business Administration’s AACSB Accreditation Application of 1979. Many current CoB
faculty are comparing the organization today to the one of the Joe Greene era, and this document allows for a serious
assessment of where USM’s College of Business stands today. This installment (#2) shows, as other reports here at
USMNEWS.NET have, how CoB administrators sometimes create an alternate version of reality in order to promote the
interests and desires of certain faculty favorites. As previewed in installment #1 in this series, this report deals with the
treatment of economics professor Edward Nissan.
EDWARD NISSAN, FORMER PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
(August 31, 2007) Beck and Call The Impending Battle in EFIB over George Carter’s Attention As one of three departments
in USM’s College of Business, the Department of Economics, Finance and International Business (EFIB) is chaired by
George Carter (professor of economics). The EFIB’s office complex is located in Joseph Greene Hall, Suite 309, which is
divided into six separate areas. The EFIB complex is depicted in the box below:
(September 4, 2007) Ethics Update, Sept-07 "Our tradition of excellence continues to reinforce our commitment to . . . a
sense of ethical behavior." Alvin J. Williams, Interim Dean, USM College of Business Administration, 2007
(November 1, 2007) Special Report Will USM Earn any Money from Carter’s Fall ’07 Overload? An Investigative Series on
the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain A number of reports here at usmnews.net have revealed that EFIB chair George
Carter has been providing teaching overloads to various EFIB faculty as a way of boosting their annual pay and retirement
benefits. That “program” has been referred to as Carter’s Clinical Teaching Professorships Program, and it represents
what appears to be the unauthorized (at least at levels above CoB Dean) use by Carter of faculty resources (time, etc.) in
teaching that were originally allocated instead to perform research and service functions. Of course, one of the primary
beneficiaries of this clinical teaching professorship program is Carter himself, and his use of it is particularly egregious
given that his employment as a CoB administrator entitles him to a 6-hour base teaching load.
(January 29, 2009) CoB News, 28 January 2008 Jackson’s Professional Judgment? Carter’s Regression Obsession CoB
faculty got back to campus for Spring semester 2008 to learn that the Undergraduate Programs Committee had approved a
new 1-hour course covering the basics of regression. Back in the early 1990s, the CoB offered a two-semester sequence in
UG statistics – BA 301 and BA 302. Both of these were 3-hour courses, and the second of the two covered regression
analysis, along with other quan
(May 5, 2008) CoB Flashback: Spring 2001 Join us as we flash back to spring 2001, when the CoB was known as the CBA
(College of Business Administration), and William Gunther was its dean.