This website is part of an effort to open our College and University. The website is available to all. Dean Doty, Provost Grimes, President Thames, or anyone else, is welcome to share information or offer differing points of view. I recognize that with respect to opinion pieces, opinions may differ and additional information may result in a different picture. As I have done in previous editions, I am willing to include comments and reports from everyone. Your input, including corrections, is valued.
D. Harold Doty, Dean, College of Business, University of Southern Mississippi
(September 8, 2006) AN OPEN LETTER TO DEAN D. HAROLD DOTY For more detailed information, please review the links found in Quotable Doty.
A note from the editor: (September 22, 2006) Black Tuesday in the CoB: A Call for Sanctions contains a chronology that demonstrates how a coup designed to eliminate shared governance in CoB was planned and executed by George Carter, Farhang Niroomand and Harold Doty. His most recent email to Provost Grimes leaves little doubt is left that Dr. Doty's claim that he lacked knowledge of the details of the proceeding is, at kindest, disingenuous and intended to conceal his role as the architect of Black Tuesday. CMD
Chauncey M. DePree, Jr., DBA, Accounting Professor, marcdepree@comcast.net
A Report on BlackTuesday at the College of Business At usmpride.com, we consider the actions and statements of Dr. Carter on “Black Tuesday” to be a perversion of our rules of governance. See Faculty Handbook Section 8.3.3 (at page 69). [Thanks, Astute Colleague for providing the reference.] We can be persuaded otherwise but not without Dr. Carter’s facts and reasoning. We encourage Dr. Carter and Lee Gore, who allegedly advised Dr. Carter how to spoil the committee properly elected to govern the EFIB, to enter the dialogue at usmpride.com or a forum of their choice. We can have a meeting of minds, but that is not possible without their participation. Currently, all we can tell is that Dr. Carter's reasons for setting up a plan to subvert a legitimate faculty vote are as follow: (1) the truth drawn from public information should never be disagreeable. Only pleasant things should be said. (2) Dr. Mark Klinedinst, who preceded Dr. Carter as Chairman of EFIB, and Dr. Tom Lindley, a respected senior professor, cannot be trusted with information that Dr. Carter defines as confidential. Let’s try something different. Let’s have a dialogue like real academics. CMD
Dr. Carter's prepared statement which was read to the faculty on Black Tuesday and delivered to them the next day is now available in its entirety. By way of background, you may find the following reports concerning Dr. Carter of interest. The Ethics Professor and the Company Man; Sedona Files, Part 14, George Carter's Role as Ethicist in Residence
(September 22, 2006) Black Tuesday in the CoB: A Call for Sanctions
"... Despite telling CoB faculty that he lacked all of the details about the EFIB meeting/decision, his e-mail to the CoB contains a copy of an e-mail Doty sent earlier to Jay Grimes, wherein Doty attempts to describe the situation regarding EFIB’s faculty governance as if he (Doty) were actually in the meeting. In it Doty provides his opinion on every detail, beginning with his support of Carter’s rationale for resigning, and including his own opinion about how the Faculty Handbook was intended to handle a situation such as the one that took place in the EFIB on September 19, 2006.
Doty’s statement about not finding reason to “over-rule the will of the majority” is despicable, in that Carter’s ploy on September 19, 2006 over-ruled the will of the majority from the original EFIB meeting on August 29, 2006. Thus, Doty’s actions were against the spirit of the USM Handbook and deserve a sanction from the Provost, the President, the USM Faculty Senate, and the USM AAUP."
Doty’s statement about not finding reason to “over-rule the will of the majority” is despicable, in that Carter’s ploy on September 19, 2006 over-ruled the will of the majority from the original EFIB meeting on August 29, 2006. Thus, Doty’s actions were against the spirit of the USM Handbook and deserve a sanction from the Provost, the President, the USM Faculty Senate, and the USM AAUP."
(September 21, 2006) usmpride.com News . . . . THE FIRST REPORT ON BLACK TUESDAYAs reported earlier at usmpride.com, EFIB Chair George Carter distributed an e-mail to all EFIB faculty on 18 September 2006 indicating that a faculty meeting was to be held at 12:30pm on 19 September 2006. Investigators at usmpride.com have obtained a copy of Carter’s memo, which was three sentences in length. That memo [says]: There will be a faculty meeting at 12:30pm in room JGH 109 on Tuesday, September 19, 2006. I will read a prepared statement to which the faculty will react. Please plan to attend this important faculty meeting.
According to sources, after taking a deep breath, Carter opened the meeting by reading from a prepared statement. He began by stating that the “45 Minutes” document showed that certain individuals are writing about public faculty information that is hurtful and uncomplimentary. Carter’s statement expressed concern about what these unnamed individuals would write about if they were to obtain private faculty information. Among the examples of “private information,” Carter included annual evaluation information in his written statement. Carter’s statement went on to say that he was uncomfortable having to share private faculty information with other faculty members, such as would be required under a committee governance option, and that he (Carter) would be more comfortable making the independent assessment of faculty that is required of him as chair without being part of a committee governance structure. (continued)
A pdf version of the complete report may be viewed by clicking here.
(September 22, 2006) Carter's Coup: 2 1/2 days in the Making "... EFIB Chair George Carter resigned from the elected 3-person governance committee in a way that circumvented the department’s right to an Option 2 governance structure. In doing so, Carter may have violated the Faculty Handbook, which, as some would suggest, is something he’s done in the past (e.g., the Trellis Green lawsuit). It seems worthwhile to consider an additional twist to this particular story. It is now well-documented that Carter was missing in action for the second half of the work week of September 11-15, 2006. Carter took the afternoon of 9/13 off, and was missing entirely on 9/14 and 9/15 of 2006. Although it was reportedly due to a wedding trip, consider the possibility that Carter, the “company man,” took 2½ days of company time to plan his 9/19 coup. ..."
A note from the editor: "Carter's Coup: 2 1/2 days in the Making" may explain why Drs. Doty, Niroomand and Carter were too busy to provide Dr. Mixon with course materials and plans that Professor Canterbery had made and completed during the first three weeks of class, even though Dr. Mixon was required to convene his first meeting of a course that is out of his area of expertise and that he has never taught. The message is clear, our students are less important than administrative control. CMD
(September 22, 2006) A Reaction to Dr. Carter’s “Prepared Statement” to EFIB Dr. Carter says: 'The 45 Minutes document showed us that certain individuals are writing about public faculty information in an uncomplimentary, derisive, and hurtful manner." The researcher says: "The last time we checked, Farhang Niroomand is paid more than is Corky Palmer. We can criticize Palmer for losing a game but we can’t say anything about Niroomand spending tens of thousands of taxpayers’ dollars in a wasteful manner?..."
(September 24, 2006) The Carter Doctrine "It’s been about 10 years since EFIB chair George Carter’s first stint as a department chair ended - and badly. CoB lore has it that Carter was the only USM “official seated at the surrender table as Trellis Green brought an end to the assault on his own prospects for promotion to associate pofessor. As the story goes, Carter was pushed to the fore by other administrators when the pursuit of Green had reached its lowest point, and USM conceded defeat...".
(September 26, 2006) On September 16, 2006, usmpride.com reported that "... yesterday sources confirmed that George Carter assigned Canterbery’s sole teaching responsibility - ECO 672, International Economics - to Professor Frank Mixon without consulting others on that [three faculty governance] committee [voted by EFIB faculty]." On September 18, Dr. Carter announced the meeting for the now infamous Black Tuesday. Was Dr. Carter so offended that Dr. Mixon contacted Dr. Lindley and Dr. Klinedinst, as well as Dr. Carter, for assistance that he decided to eliminate any semblance of shared governance in EFIB? Of course, it could have been just one more time when Dr. Carter took the opportunity to use his position as chair to overreach with teaching assignments to Dr. Mixon. Maybe it was a little of both. Read the updated report for yourself and decide.
"The fun money is private money. At Southern Miss, I've got state dollars and I've got Foundation dollars. It's real easy to tell them apart. I tell people I've got two checkbooks. I've got my booze account and my non-booze account. Out of the state money I'm pretty constrained what in I can do. ... Foundation dollars, that's when I take my money out of my booze account, I can pretty much do anything I want with it." Click for link to Dr. Doty's Booze Account Click for link to Quotable Doty.
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