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(Contains revisions) Following the Yellow Brick Road: A Look at Sources of Doctorates of CoB’s Non-USM Degree-Holders "The USMNEWS.NET reader who made the point that USM degree-holders are likely to also hold Tier III and Tier IV doctorates seems to have struck the nail on the head...".
(Contains revisions) (October 19, 2007 Update) There’s no place like home . . . . . . There’s no place like home: The Prevalence of USM Degrees among the CoB’s Faculty, 2007-08 "... The omission of the three names detailed in the latest two corrections to this report spotlights at least two key ideas. First, the CoB’s website continues to be inadequately maintained. Second, the turnover in the CoB since 2003 has been so dramatic that many members of the CoB don’t even know who their colleagues are anymore...".
31st & Pearl, Does AACSB Grade on the Curve? "Given the way things are going in the CoB these days, one has to hope that officials at the AACSB grade on the curve. All indications are that they do, especially considering the CoB's treatment after February of 2007. Although the CoB was handed what is being called a '6th Year Review' or 'AACSB Probation,'...".
Can Doty and Niroomand Master the Art of the “Pick Up”? by Duane Cobb "It’s no secret to those following events in USM’s College of Business that its former Dean, D. Harold Doty, has been attempting to land a new job since arriving at USM in 2003...".
"Dear USM News, I know that your readers are probably most interested in the resignation of Alvin Williams right now, but I wanted to write to let you know that some faculty in the college have been discussing the dire situation regarding the lack of student progress in managerial statistics...".
CoB Power Line: A Look at Who Holds the Reigns of Power in the CoB by Duane Cobb "The CoB has devolved into such an academic banana republic of sorts that it is probably useful to take stock, from time to time, of just who holds the most political power there. …That's what updates are for...".
Backstage Pass: A Look at How "EFIB Dominance" is Impacting Academic Quality in the CoB "For a number of years, the CoB's core curriculum has included ECO 336, or international economics...".
Dear usmnews.net, "I have seen that Jon Carr's recent publication in The Academy of Management Journal is prominently displayed now in the Greene Hall publication case. That is an outstanding accomplishment for Jon...".
31st & Pearl, On the Folly of Rewarding Dakhlia for Osmonbekov's Successes "The recent letter to the editor of usmnews.net about Jon Carr's raise highlights the problematic structure of the CoB's 2007 "merit" raises...".
Transient Independent Contractors Dominate CoB "What has been referred to as the "human resource situation" in the CoB is getting worse. The "CoB Faculty Turnover" list ... only grows longer and longer with each passing semester ... In recent days, reporters ... have examined some CoB faculty characteristics...".
More Stats Learning Woes over the Horizon? Loose Grading Scale Enters the CoB "The recent hiring of Alabama PhD student, Razvan Pascalau, to fill "scheduling holes" in the EFIB brings with it a new matter related to learning deficiencies in statistics for CoB faculty and students to ponder -- a looser grading scale...".
31st & Pearl, Dotyball "Having seen (via the Internet) former CoB Dean Harold Doty's Sept-2005 interview with the University of South Florida, one can easily imagine that HoDo (former SAIS Director Stan Lewis' term for Doty) has become more than the punch line of various jokes...".
Holes in the Core: An Investigative Report on CoB Faculty Credentials "A previous installment in the Special Report series entitled "Transient Independent Contractors . . ." pointed out that the CoB's faculty ranks are increasingly becoming concentrated with untenured faculty and instructors, adjuncts, and visitors...".
Instability Within the CoB: An Investigative Report on CoB Demographics "The recent installment in the Special Report series entitled "Transient Independent Contractors Dominate CoB" revealed that 38 of the CoB's 72 faculty are untenured, which means...".
CoB News, 5 February 2008 “President Saunders, Come on Down!”
Memorandum from Duane Cobb on the "Resignation" of USM Head Football Coach Jeff Bower "... it’s difficult to read your 29 November 2007 letter to the editor of USM’s The Student Printz, inserted just below, and not agree with the general spirit of it...".
<Dear USMNEWS> The e-mail from health dean P. Fos is interesting to say the least. I am not surprised to hear that the dean pool is not good, and no one else likely is either.
31st & Pearl, Niroomand's Statements on "Early P&T" Miss the Mark "Throughout his recent political campaign in support of the 2007-08 P&T files of second-year CoB economists Sami Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti, former Associate Dean and economics professor, Farhang Niroomand, made a number of faulty and contradictory statements...".
31st & Pearl, Over 40 Seared "The recent Special Report entitled “Carter’s Targets: A Compendium” may have shocked some usmnews.net readers. It showed that there have been over 40 “victims” of EFIB chairman George Carter’s malicious tongue in recent years...".
Dear USM Pride, Don’t be surprised to find out in the future that there is some “shadow governance” going on in the COB.
Doty's Tipping Point: 2005-06 "Duane Harold Doty's administration of USM's College of Business spanned from the summer of 2003 through early April of 2007. It was characterized by ...".
31st & Pearl, Like Butter "Without raising even a bead of sweat, the College of Business at USM just successfully completed its 6th Year AACSB Review. And, the "Year" in "6th Year" was, for the CoB at least, only 10 months...".
Handbook Illusions "CoB Interim Dean Alvin Williams recently communicated to CoB faculty that a college-wide vote on amendments to the CoB faculty handbook, Enhancing Faculty Productivity, was looming...".
CoB News, 11 February 2008 "Boise State University Rejects Doty, Sources tell USMNEWS.NET that, after naming former CoB Dean Harold Doty as one of the finalists, Boise State University has recently rejected Doty's candidacy for its Dean's opening...".
Harold Doty & the Rejection Factory "Former CoB Dean Harold Doty's efforts to land a new Dean's assignment is becoming one of the more interesting stories being covered by reporters here at USMNEWS.NET...".
Bushardt Resigns - Is Joining a Jesuit College’s Faculty "Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that management professor, Stephen Bushardt, will be entering retirement at the close of the academic year...".
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31st & Pearl: AACSB Re-Cycle "The recent 'good news' from the AACSB regarding the CoB's re-accreditation means that the CoB is now on a new accreditation cycle...".
Saunders Like Thames, Doty by Duane Cobb "After watching all of the new Student Powered Videos at usm.edu, it was interesting to see that USM chose to air(on local television) one featuring new President Martha Saunders playing piano and continuing to wear out the borrowed "ride all the rides" phrase...".
31st & Pearl Perfectly Played "Is it just us, or do you and other readers of usmnews.net see the genius in the way former CoB professors, Stephen and Dana Haggard, navigated the academic labor market from 2005-07? ...".
CoB News, 18 February 2008, "Four More Out of the MGT & MKT Door The 2007-2008 academic year has not been kind to the MGT & MKT department...".
"Department of International Business Chair," Farhang Niroomand, Named Princeton Premier Honored Member "News recently came across the wire stating that CoB economics professor, Farhang Niroomand, was named an honored member (in business) of the Princeton Premier,...".
Osmonbegone! "Reports have reached USMNEWS.NET stating that Talai Osmonbekov, an assistant professor of marketing, has resigned from USM’s College of Business...".
“Good Ol’ Boy” to Chair 2 Departments and Occupy JGH Palace "David Duhon, the management professor EFIB Chair George Carter refuses to believe should ever have been promoted to full, and who Carter refers to as one of the CoB’s non-scholarly good ol’ boys, was awarded something that Carter has yet to attain...".
Marketing Faculty Ranks Devastated, Yet Set to Expand Programs "USM’s College of Business is rapidly becoming the surreal. The recent departure announcements of marketing faculty Tony Henthorne, to UNLV, and Talai Osmonbekov, to Northern Arizona University, have devastated the CoB’s marketing faculty ranks ...".
Academic Analytics Weighs in on USM An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Credentials "A 20-Feb-08 News Update posted by The Hattiesburg American entitled “Southern Miss science, tech programs in top 10 list,” gave officials in USM’s College of Science and Technology...".
College & University Presidents Who Blog: An Examination of the Quality of Institutions Involved
Tourism Management on the Defensive "Emma James' 24-Feb-08 article for The Hattiesburg American, entitled 'The inn crowd: USM tourism management offers cross-discipline training,' inadvertently highlights a number of problematic facets of the CoB's current staffing situation...".
“Member of Protected Group,” Francis Daniel, to Exit CoB "The CoB's Department of Management and Marketing continues to take a pounding on the staffing front. Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that assistant professor of management, Francis Daniel, has submitted his resignation from USM, effective at the end of the 2007-08 academic year...".
Meet Your Next Dean? "A number of USMNEWS.NET readers have contacted us to predict that Danny Arnold, the Dean of Business at Frostburg State University, will become the fifth (permanent) business Dean in the history of USM's College of Business...".
Back to the Well "Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that the CoB’s central administration has once again called upon MIS professor, Donna Davis, to spearhead an administrative effort for the college...".
ECO Census, An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Turnover "As the weeks go by the CoB’s faculty turnover problem appears to get worse and worse...".
Searching for One Thing, and Finding Two "The recent installment in the Special Report series entitled "ECO Census" presented data on the age of each of the 10 remaining full-time faculty in the CoB’s economics group that were gathered by reporters at USMNEWS.NET...".
By George . . . The Second A Look at the Text of George Carter's Denigration of Harold Doty "EFIB Chair George Carter's excoriation of former CoB Dean, Harold Doty, has been the subject of numerous reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.NET...".
31st & Pearl Saunders-Amodeo Relationship Should be Examined "After reading the drivel that Mona Amodeo's consulting firm produced in response to USM's recent "Core Dialogues," it's clear that the University got hosed by its contractual relationship with Amodeo. For a report which barely presents any coherent thoughts, …".
31st & Pearl, More "No" No Good "In case you are joining us late in the game, the CoB's 2007-08 job searches are now well under way and the "politely decline" routine from candidate pool finalists has begun anew...".
(UPDATED) Accreditation 2012 -- The Impossible Dream?"With the calendar turning over into 2008, the CoB's next attempt to retain its AACSB accreditation is already looming. ...".
31st & Pearl , BBER Slumber Better for All "The recent Economics Symposium put on by the Bureau of Business Research Director, CoB economist William Gunther, revealed much about the shallowness of the CoB’s 'Centers-in-Residence.'...".
Don't Blink, An Investigative Report on CoB Administration Changes "These days in the CoB, if you blink your eyes you risk seeing the entire management team change...".
CoB No Longer a “Magnet School” "Through the years, particularly those years under the direction of former Dean Tyrone Black, USM’s business school was a respectable organization that boasted at least one (and usually more) notable scholar in each academic unit...".
Strategic Human Resource Management in the CoB "With all of the difficulties in hiring facing the CoB each year, one would hardly know that former CoB Dean, Harold Doty, was a strategic human resource management guru. Maybe he's not...".
CoB to Lose Journal of Tourism, and Possibly More from TM "The news that Tourism Management Chair, Tony Henthorne, had secured the Journal of Tourism for the CoB was only days old when the news broke that Henthorne had accepted the post of Chair of the tourism management...".
CoB News, 7 March 2008, What's Left in Management and Marketing "Readers of USMNEWS.NEThave requested that our reporters compile a list of current full-time, tenure-track faculty in Hattiesburg division of the management unit and the marketing who will be returning to the CoB to complete another academic year of service during 2008-09...".
Economic Development Hits the CoB Where It Hurts "Based on information contained in Jana Bryant’s latest press release, USM’s economic development group is starting to hit the CoB where it hurts...".
Williams Riding Herd on Gunther and the BBER "Interim CoB Dean, Alvin Williams, appears to be riding herd on William Gunther, professor of economics and Director of the CoB's Bureau of Business and Economic Research...".
Attention . . . Please: An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Turnover "While reports that Interim CoB Dean, Alvin Williams, is riding herd of some of the CoB’s lazier faculty, such as economics professor William Gunther,...".
More Z, Y, X Publicity "The Hattiesburg American's 15-March-08 story, ‘College takes over publication,’ shows just what can happen when THA allows press releases from USM to sit around for a while…".
"Drop the Zero, and Get With the Hero" "Management professor Stephen Bushardt will soon be departing for Spring Hill College. There, he will share his knowledge of the "Heroes and Storytellers" program, which can be found at www.timbersnursery.com, with the Jesuit institution's faculty...".
CoB to Nail Down New Dean in Ultra-Secret Process "Only 24 hours before the first finalist candidate for the CoB's new Dean position arrives in Mississippi, the current CoB administration announces that the first finalist's visit will begin on 18-March-08 and end on 20-March-08...".
Fos Releases Nail's Vitae "The CoB has always had difficulties 'closing the loop,' and this year's search for a new Dean appears to be no exception to that rule. College of Health Dean, Peter Fos, who also serves as the Chair of the CoB's Dean Search Committee, failed to close off the confidentiality loop by forwarding (by e-mail) to CoB faculty Lance Nail's vitae...".
Anywhere but Here: CoB Faculty Involvement in International Teaching Junkets "During the regular 9-month year, some CoB faculty seem to work tirelessly to figure out ways to acquire teaching load reductions and/or "overload pay" for regular teaching loads...".
(UPDATE) Aunt Martha's "Banner Year" "USM President, Martha Saunders, stood before USM faculty, staff and students, along with local media, at the University's Fall 2007 Convocation and proclaimed that USM's athletics would be producing a banner year during 2007-08...".