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(June 2, 2008) The Albinator "This is the story of USM's former School of Professional Accountancy Director James Crockett's late 1990s depiction of Marvin Albin as a rising star...".
(June 16, 2008) Dr. Dakhlia on the First Amendment: A Look at Sami Dakhlia's Grievance Against USMNEWS.NET "Two weeks after standing before CoB faculty and staff assembled for the end-of-year CoB meeting and presenting a proclamation that disparaged Marc DePree,...".
(June 25, 2008) Home Cooking "In her recent U.S. District Court deposition, assistant professor of accounting, Mary Morgan Anderson, had two chances to say...".
(June 26, 2008) Was Jordan a Journal Ranking Sweepstakes Winner? "This Special Report adds to other reports on the CoB's 2007-08 journal ranking process that have been appearing on the pages of USMNEWS.NET in recent days...".
(June 27, 2008) Boilerplate Language? An Investigation of Citation Usage in Administrative Functions "As has been reported in this forum, the USMNEWS.net editor, Dr. C.M. DePree, Jr., filed a complaint with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)...".
(July 8, 2008) The "Implied Permission" Doctrine: A New Look at the Foundation of the CoB's 2006-08 AACSB Reports "This promises to be an interesting new series here at USMNEWS.net. In it we will present new information on the CoB's use of documents...".
(July 29, 2008) The Perfect Slipstream Artist? "Several reports over the last few weeks have shown how the so-called academic slipstreaming in the CoB appears to be working to create for various CoB faculty somewhat of an illusion of research productivity...".
(August 4, 2008) Journal Ranking Shenanigans Uncovered? It is a common occurrence here at USMNEWS.net that in response to a readers comment about one report, USMNEWS.net reporters uncover information that relates to another issue..."
(August 14, 2008) A Taste of How the CoB Works: Journal Classification "One of the things USMNEWS.net has done over the past few years is to show just how politics in the CoB shapes just about everything that is done there...".
(August 15, 2008) CoB Human Resources Update, August, 2008 "This month's issue of CoB Human Resources Update begins with former CoB marketing faculty, Talai Osmonbekov...".
(August 19, 2008) Making a Move: An Update to the 2009 Louis K. Brandt Predictions "When we last visited our predictions for the CoB’s 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award, MIS stalwart, Fujun Lai, stood solidly at the top...".
(August 25, 2008) Harold Doty to Teach 4-Days/Week Schedule in Fall '08 "usmnews.net has learned that former CoB dean, Harold Doty, is teaching a 4 days/week load during the fall 2008 semester...".
(August 26, 2008) Economics or Economic Development? A look at the Two Competitors for USM's ECO/IB Platform "Conventional wisdom around USM is...".
(August 27, 2008) Doty on the Block, Another Look at the Former CoB Dean's Fall 2008 Teaching Load "the 25-August-08 USMNEWS.net report on former CoB dean Harold Doty's fall teach load is drawing much interest from readers...".
(August 27, 2008) M-Score Comparisons "The recent release of the 2009 America's Best Colleges ratings from U.S. News & World report has the USM community buzzing...".
(August 28, 2008) Dean Nail Speaks, An Analysis of the New CoB Dean's 27-Aug-08 E-Mail to Faculty and Staff "All indications from sources have been that that new CoB dean, Lance Nail, has a legitimate shot at beginning the process of turning the CoB around...".
(August 29, 2008) Punitive Teaching Schedule = "Informal Discipline": Lessons from Roderick Posey’s Recent U.S. District Court Testimony "Former interim dean and former SAIS Director, Roderick Posey, recently provided sworn testimony in a United States District Court proceeding...".
(September 3, 2008) Stepping Stoned: A Look at the CoB’s Degrees-to-USM Data "One of the facets of higher education is that professors generally take jobs at institutions that rank below that of the institutional affiliation of their terminal degree level...".
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By George: A Look at the Text of George Carter's Denigration of David Duhon "EFIB Chair George Carter's excoriation of the promotion to full professor in 2006 of CoB management professor, David Duhon, has been the subject of numerous reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.NET...".
Dear USMNEWS, The report that the college's accreditation came through finally reached the newspaper this week.
Williams' Fall '07 Proposals Fall Flat by Duane Cobb "During the Fall 2007 CoB faculty meeting, Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams told CoB faculty and staff that he (Williams) would see to it that everyone in the CoB had a personal webpage...".
Point/Counterpoint: Should David Duhon Have Been Promoted to Full Prof? Bushardt’s Point/Carter’s Counterpoint
And then who? "Tony Henthorne, current Chair of about half of the CoB, is making it clear to anyone who will listen that he does not want to be Chair of MKT/MGT/FM next year. He received no extra money for this job, he claims, and did it as a favor for Interim Dean Williams (as speculated here previously)...".
Doty Now a Cartoon-Like Character by Duane Cobb "Former CoB Dean, D. Harold Doty, is now simply a cartoon-like character, and one whose antics are so unbelievable that his they resemble the kind of urban legend that one is never able to fully square with reality...".
31st & Pearl, Dotyology 101 "Now that the CoB’s Undergraduate Programs Committee (UPC) is busy building a 1-hour course in regression for EFIB Chairman George Carter and Carter’s best friend, Edward Nissan, perhaps they have time to implement some course offerings that might actually do some good for CoB students...".
Greetings USM news! "Aren't Akbar Marvasti's antics becoming an embarassment for the college?...".
31st & Pearl, Is Williams a Trouble-Maker? "It is well-known among CoB old timers that EFIB Chair George Carter fancied the Dean's seat for himself after Tyrone Black, former Dean of the CBA, stepped down in 1997. After one year with accountant Roderick Posey as Interim CBA Dean, Carter wore his desire to occupy JGH 211 on his sleeve. It was not to be, …".
Doty's Great Raid of New Orleans, 2006-07 by Duane Cobb "At the beginning of the Fall 2006 CoB faculty meeting, former CoB Dean Harold Doty stood awkwardly before CoB faculty, as he usually did on such occasions, and introduced new faculty…".
From the Ghost of Christmas Future, "CoB Public Service Announcement, ATTENTION CoB JUNIOR FACULTY: Have Your “External T&P Review” Done by a Professional...".
(September 9, 2008) Research Assignments in FIN "Recent reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net have highlighted the CoB’s new requirement that faculty focus their research efforts on those areas that match their teaching assignments...".
(September 10, 2008) Christmas in August for Stanley J. Clark: CoB Accountant Receives "Secret Raise" of $7,500 "It turns out the rumors reported in the 8-Sept-08 installment of GH Chatter were true after all...".
(September 10, 2008) More “Fun Money” Found? An Investigative Report on the Growing Fall ’08 Book/Online Fees Controversy "Recent reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net have expanded...".
(September 17, 2008) How do we Know Enrollment Didn’t Go Down? More on the “Duplicated Headcount” Nonsense "Just today USM officials released news that USM’s enrollment had increased by 3% this fall semester 2008. According to Jana Bryant’s 17-Sept-08 presser, ...".
(September 12, 2008) Swimming in Quicksand "Assistant professor of economics, Daniel Monchuk, was one of first new hires of the 2003-07 Harold Doty administration of the CoB...".
(September 12, 2008) No Wonder Carr is Bouncing! "Though some of our sources have in the past questioned whether or not associate professor of MGT, Jon Carr, will actually be departing the CoB...".
(September 15, 2008) The 4 "Ds": CoB Administration Stipends, 2008-09 "Two veteran CoB faculty took on important administrative posts to begin the 2008-09 academic year...".
(September 19, 2008) "Professor of Regional Economics and Economics Education"? "The Hits Just Keep on Comin' To the outside world, EFIB chair George Carter is a "professor of regional economics and economics education." At least that is what Carter told Lauren Moak,..
(September 16, 2008) Brass on the Go? A Look at the 2008-09 Job Search Possibilities Facing Doty, Gunther and Niroomand
(September 18, 2008) 31st & Pearl: By George "The autumn of EFIB chair George Carter’s career is probably not going the way he thought it would several years ago...".
(September 18, 2008) A collection of Hal Greene's Greatest Hits (republished by request)
(September 22, 2008) ". . . Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To" "New CoB dean Lance Nail is to be applauded for convincing the Martha Saunders administration to provide $1 million in summer research support (for the CoB) over the next three years...".
(September 23, 2008) Mary's Check
(September 25, 2008) CoB Flashback: June 7, 2005 "Former CoB associate dean, Farhang Niroomand, may have spent the first day of the 2006 AACSB Annual Meeting held in Paris, France, from 23-April-06 to 25-April-06 visiting France's famed Louvre, but he’s got nothing on former CoB dean, Harold Doty, in that regard...".
(September 22, 2008) Kaetsu Kronies "The choice of current interim chair of management and marketing, David Duhon, to hold the Kaetsu Distinguished Professorship in International Business was pretty much the last straw...".
(October 6, 2008) Is Babu George on Tenure Track? "A number of reports here at USMNEWS.net have made it clear that outgoing interim CoB dean Alvin Williams and/or tourism management chair Tony Henthorne engaged in a number of untoward activities in the waning days (in the summer of 2008) of their USM careers...".
(September 25, 2008) Michael Wittmann Orders Up a "Clark Special" "To hear sources describe it, the ridiculousness that is USM's College of Business these days is beyond measure...".
(October 1, 2008) What Does John Clark Do? "What does John Clark do for the CoB?...".
(October 2, 2008) Part 1 of a three part series -- The Carter Bunch: A Look at How George Carter's Politics May Ruin the Nail Administration "Have no doubts about it, EFIB chairman George Carter is on a mission to bring down the new Lance Nail administration of USM's College of Business...".
(October 7, 2008) Fore Fouls "Reports are in that once again Jim Henderson has hit out of bounds. He has had the departmental administrative assistant proctor his tests - again...".
(October 2, 2008) Seven Questions to Save the CoB "We’re just two installments in and already the new “Seven Questions” series here at USM is one I am looking most forwarding to checking on each day...".
(October 9, 2008) O.B.: SAIS Director Steven Jackson Responds to Jim Henderson's Absence "It was only 24 hours after USMNEWS.net received the opinion piece entitled "Fore Fouls" -- a column admonishing associate professor of accounting ...".
(October 10, 2008) Tables Turned "A few readers have contacted USMNEWS.net to point out that a number of former CoB faculty have moved on to institutions that have trained various current and former CoB faculty...".
(October 8, 2008) Letters to the Editor "Dear USM News, ...".
(October 8, 2008) "Good B-School Deans Don't" "Good b-school deans don't resign in April...".
(October 9, 2008) Letters to the Editor "Dear usmnews, As usual Dr. Jackson has missed the point of the exercise...".
(October 8, 2008) Part 2 of a three part series -- Bad Apples: A Look at How George Carter's Politics May Ruin the Nail Administration "Have no doubts about it, EFIB chairman George Carter is on a mission to bring down the new Lance Nail administration...".
(October 14, 2008) Hub FINs "With a number of tenure and promotion decisions looming large in the finance section of the EFIB over the coming months, USMNEWS.net reporters are taking a look at the quality of the economics and finance research coming from the CoB’s FIN faculty...".
(October 14, 2008) Letters to the Editor "Dear USM News, ...".
(October 15, 2008) It's Getting Ridiculous: A Look at the CoB’s New Professor of Practice "In a trip down proverbial memory lane, reporters at USMNEWS.net recently re-examined Jan May’s 9-Oct-06 presser entitled 'Business Students to Hear from 30-Year Veteran of Corporate World.'...".
(October 16, 2008) 10 Weeks: An Update to the 2009 Louis K. Brandt Predictions "Our August-08 article entitled Making a Move we revisited the race in the CoB for the 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award...".