(May 18, 2009) Save the Date In and Around USM’s College of Business Speaking of summer 2009 semester, economics professor
Edward Nissan is teaching two sections of BA 301 at 3 hours each, and one section of BA 303 for one additional hour. What kind of
credit do you suppose he's getting for this odd load?
ARTICLES CONCERNING
EDWARD NISSAN,
FORMER PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
(September 17, 2009) What CoAL Needs to Know OVERLOOKED DETAILS ABOUT THE MOVE OF ECO TO ARTS & LETTERS
As USM administrators prepare to move the CoB’s economics major, and its remaining economists, over to the CoAL, there are
some oft-overlooked details that need to be brought to the fore. Some of these are the subject of this new, multi-part
USMNEWS.net series entitled “What CoAL Needs to Know.” This is Part 1.
(September 19, 2009) 31st & Pearl A Great Read Thus Far For those of you who have been away from USMNEWS.net for a day or
two, there's a new series launched there entitled "What the CoAL Needs to Know." Thus far only Part 1 and Part 2 in this series –
which is all about the proposed move of ECO to the CoAL – have been published, but there's enough to know that some really good
reading is in our present and near future. The headings alone, which are listed below, are enough to whet the appetite.
(December 15, 2009) CoBers' 2009 Christmas Lists . . . Just for Fun, part 1 Edward Nissan (retiring ECO prof) Emeritus office space
in the USM Foundation
(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) Two Peas, One Pod Examining the USM Departures of Edward Nissan and George Carter 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 professors Edward
Nissan and George Carter, who are two of the five mostly senior CoB economists who were forced into retirement by USM during
budget-cutting exercises that took place back in the fall of 2009. What will the CoB (USM) lose with these departures? On the
research front, Table 1 and Table 2 below provide an answer.