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(March 25, 2009) Race for the NACDA Cup Which USM Administrators Fostered Success . . . and Diversity? "Each academic year the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) sponsors a race between NCAA member institutions...".

(March 26, 2009) Ghastly Service Ghosts: A Look At Fall 2008 Service Dereliction In The Cob "Faculty in the CoB’s management and marketing department (MGT & MKT) have, on occasion, referred to CoB economics professor Mark Klinedinst as 'the ghost.'..."

(March 27, 2009) Doty Pulling All Stops for Job at UT-Tyler "Former CoB dean (and current CoB management professor) Harold Doty appears to be pulling all stops in his pursuit of the opening at the top of the University of Texas - Tyler’s College of Business and Technology...".

(March 30, 2009) LSU's Hughes Accepts Nail’s Offer to Lead ACC "Reports have reached USMNEWS.net offices indicating that LSU accountant Kirby "Skip" E. Hughes II has accepted CoB dean Lance Nail’s offer to direct the CoB’s new School of Accounting...".

(April 6, 2009) A Reader Comments on New Year’s Rockin’ Chairs: Where CoB Dean Lance Nail’s Plan to Hire 6 New Chairs Stands Today "If you have been thinking lately that CoB dean Lance Nail’s plan to staff the CoB’s six new departments with six outside chairs has hit a snag, you are probably correct...".

(March 10, 2009) Unstreetable Kettle & Pot "The recent USMNEWS.net reports and editorials on William Gunther’s opining, in his official capacity as director of the CoB’s Bureau of Business & Economic Research...".

(March 11, 2009) Doty to UT-T through Lassen? . . . . . . . . . . Priceless by Duane Cobb "So, a recent GH Chatter has it that former CoB dean (and current CoB MGT professor) Harold Doty is in the running for the dean's opening in the College of Business and Technology at the University of Texas - Tyler. How sweet!...".

(March 13, 2009) Behind the 8 Eight: Current CoB Faculty USM Doesn’t Need to Lose by Duane Cobb "As you can tell, I like to rank CoB faculty against one scale or another from time to time (e.g., 'the 5 best moves from the CoB,' 'the 5 worst moves from the CoB,' etc.)...".

(March 16, 2009) Will John Clark Go as Far as Paris this Year? "On “Senior Night” in Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma women’s basketball star Courtney Paris told the home crowd (see below) that the OU Sooners would win the 2009 NCAA Championship. ...".

(March 24, 2009) The CoBaT Cave What a Doty Deanship might mean for UT-Tyler "The thought of Harold Doty visiting the College of Business & Technology at the University of Texas - Tyler, as he is doing now to interview for the top administrative position there, conjures up all sorts of disturbing images...".

(March 16, 2009) Why We Write "In a play on the words constituting the title of Frank Capra’s famous video series about America’s participation in World War II, the USMNEWS.net readers whose words are printed in Wag the Dog Redux? show just why USMNEWS.net’s reporting and editorial staffers are so dedicated to their respective jobs...".

(March 30, 2009) The Failure of USM's "LE Experiment" And, Is Racism Part of this Story? "When the leaders of your institution can't see what journalists are pointing out to them there is little reason to believe that your institution is being led by the capable...".

(April 3, 2009) Dr. Doty & Mr. Fundraiser: The Story of Harold Doty - the Real Jekyll-and-Hyde "Former CoB Dean Former CoB dean Duane Harold Doty recently jaunted off to Tyler, TX, to tell the good folks of the UT-T business school that he makes an excellent candidate to lead them (as their new b-school dean) into the future...".

(April 7, 2009) The Good, the Bad, and the U-g-l-y: More on the Hidden Costs of the CoB’s post-2003 Decline "Much has been written about the costs to the CoB of the disastrous administration of former dean D. Harold Doty (2003-07), and the interim administration of Alvin Williams (2007-08) that followed it...".

(April 8, 2009) The Last Nail: John Clark "If Dean Lance Nail is looking to further sabotage his efforts at making the College of Business better, then his opportunity awaits him like a lethal injection of poison...".

(April 8, 2009) The Doty We Know "The news that former CoB dean Duane Harold Doty went off to interview for the top b-school position at the University of Texas at Tyler was of interest to current and former CoBers alike...".

(April 13, 2009) Smith Takes Home 2009 AT&T Award "CoB assistant professor of marketing William Smith has taken home the 2009 AT&T Outstanding Faculty Award. According to sources, this was well-deserved, as Smith showed up as a Gold Star classroom performer...".

(April 16, 2009) LIKE A PHOENIX: More on the Fall, and Possible Rise, of Statistics Education in the CoB "With much of the CoB’s statistics education (BA 301 and 303) program in the hands of the incapable John Lambert (IB) and George Carter (ECO),...".

(April 17, 2009) Abuse of Staff? A Look Back at CoB History on the Matter "The recent advice to CoB dean Lance Nail entitled Wrong Message, Wrong Mode, Wrong Moment, Wrong Minister regarding the so-called Sonia Gaines-Littles episode alludes to the possibility that Gaines-Littles' animus towards CoB faculty stems from some undercurrent of harm done by past faculty abuse(s) of CoB staff..."

(April 7, 2009) Cheaper by This Dozen: Twelve Current CoB Faculty USM Dean Lance Nail Could Stand to Lose by Duane Cobb "Picking up where my recent ranking of CoB faculty that CoB dean Lance Nail can’t afford to lose (Behind the 8) left off, this report ranks the top 12 current CoB faculty that dean Lance Nail can’t afford to have hang on for an extended period...".

(April 22, 2009) Readers comment on the April 13, 2009 report What do we Know about SG-L? "CoB Alternative Learning Coordinator Sonia Gaines-Littles set off a virtual firestorm with her 1-April-09 e-mail deriding CoB faculty for dropping in unannounced to visit with Messrs Lance Nail and/or Joseph Peyrefitte...".

(April 27, 2009) CoB Human Resources Update, April, 2009 "A large number of CoB faculty are riding the tenure & promotion train these days. One of these is assistant professor of finance, Matthew Hood...".

(April 21, 2009) Hughes Changes the Research Impact of Accounting: A Look at the Latest Google Scholar Data "LSU’s Kirby E. “Skip” Hughes II has yet to set foot as the director of accounting in USM’s JAG and he has already made a huge impact on the CoB’s accounting research portfolio...".

(April 21, 2009) Just How Toxic is the CoB's Environment? B-School Naghshpour vs. CoAL Naghshpour Suggests It's "Very" "The recent series Our Most Talented Colleagues showed just how successful those former CoB faculty who departed USM in 2003 and later have been ...".

(April 22, 2009) Fujun Lai Wins 2009 Brandt Award "Associate professor of decision sciences (DS), Fujun Lai, has been named the winner of the CoB’s 2009 Louis K. Brandt Award...".

(April 30, 2009) Decision Sciences’ Donna Davis to Chair BEDS "The 29-April-09 e-mail announcement from CoB dean Lance Nail informing CoB faculty that decision sciences’ Donna Davis will chair the new (starting 1-July-09) department of business economics and decision sciences (BEDS) completely lacked the suspense usually accompanying such announcements...".

(April 30, 2009) LAATSCH LIKELY TO CHAIR FINRELS: More and More CoB Chairs Falling to Internal Candidates "The recent news that decision sciences’ Donna Davis will be chairing the CoB’s new department of business economics and decision sciences has USMNEWS.net sources stating that associate professor of finance Francis Laatsch...".

(April 13, 2009) Wrong Message, Wrong Mode, Wrong Moment, Wrong Minister "... In a world in which Lance Nail can ill afford serious missteps, the CoB Dean of nine months may have made (or, at the very least, sanctioned) one of the poorest decisions of his entire administrative career by authorizing construction and dissemination of the above email from CoB Dean’s Office secretary...".

(April 15, 2009) Getting Back to What is Important "Now that Drexel University’s Jacqueline Garner has officially declined CoB dean Lance Nail’s invitation to chair the CoB’s new FINRELS department, it’s time to get back to the important tasks of a college of business...".

A punitive work schedule -- During the last semester taught by the editor of usmnews.net, he was assigned a teaching schedule similar to the one described by Dr. Posey. The editor taught a night class in Gulfport, typically arriving back in Hattiesburg at 11:00 pm or later to be in class the next morning at 8:00 am. If any of our readers have been the subject of "disciplinary" measures not identified in the faculty handbook, please let usmnews.net know.

(April 20, 2009) 1984 "... Q. Explain that [the concept of discipline measures not outlined in the faculty handbook] to me again. A. Just some things I know Dean Greene did to a faculty member once. He gave the faculty member a class at night, and then 8:00 the next morning for the faculty member...".

(May 7, 2009) Leisa Flynn to Chair Marketing & Fashion Merchandising "CoB dean Lance Nail has announced that Florida State University professor of marketing, Leisa Flynn (shown below), will become the new chair of the CoB’s new department of marketing and fashion merchandising...".

(May 8, 2009) It’s Looking like Laatsch: Dean Lance Nail’s New CoB Now Taking Shape "The recent news that CoB dean Lance Nail has selected Leisa Flynn, a professor of marketing at Florida State University, to chair the CoB’s new department of marketing and fashion merchandising,...".

(May 12, 2009) QPE: Another Look at Teaching Quality in the CoB "A number of reports here at USMNEWS.net have examined teaching quality in USM's College of Business...".

(May 12, 2009) Five CoB Faculty Awarded Tenure for 2009-10 "At the May-09 IHL Board meeting, set to occur tomorrow (13-May) and Thursday (14-May), five CoB faculty will be awarded tenure, which will begin in the 2009-10 academic year...".

(May 5, 2009) And the Winner is . . . How Much Faculty Governance is Occurring in the Selection of CoB Dept Chairs? "Reports coming out of USM's b-school indicate that an election of sorts between associate professors Ernest King and Francis Laatsch is occurring to decide who holds the reins in the CoB's new finance, real estate, and business law department...".

(April 20, 2009) Dear usmnews.net "On April 1, 2009, I, along with other College of Business faculty members, received an email from Sonia Gaines Little admonishing us for daring to stop by to talk to Lance Nail without a prior appointment...".

(April 23, 2009) The X Annual Sloth Games How ECO’s Mark Klinedinst Tried to Bring Down the Nail Administration "CoB economics professor Mark Klinedinst is not actually in the building (Greene Hall) much...".

(April 24, 2009) Symbolism - from the past to the future "One of the many bombs former Interim Dean Alvin Williams left current Dean Lance Nail was the continuing problem of Bill Gunther and his entitlement mindset...".

(May 13, 2009) The Wheels on the Bus Musical Chairs Malfeasance in the CoB, 2003-09 "The turmoil caused by the D. Harold Doty administration (2003-07) of USM’s College of Business has been the subject of numerous studies, reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net and elsewhere...".

(May 13, 2009) Klinedinst Has Highest Faculty Senate Absenteeism Rate "The USM Faculty Senate has just released its 2008-09 Faculty Senate attendance records and CoB professor of economics Mark Klinedinst shows up with the highest “absenteeism rate” on record...".

(May 19, 2009) Blame it on the Ha . . . Ha . . Ha . . Ha . . . Ha . . . Harold Doty "We don’t need a Jamie Foxx hit song to know that the whole Cheri Becker meltdown that CoB administrators are now facing lies at the feet of former CoB dean Harold Doty. Doty, ...".

(May 14, 2009) Naghshpour Wins BOF Distinguished Professorship Award "Former CoB associate professor of economics Shahdad Naghshpour has won the 2009 Butch Oustalet Family Distinguished Research Professorship Award...".

(May 18, 2009) Making a Point of It: A Look at the Distances between Former CoBers and the CoB "An unusually large number of faculty have departed the CoB since 2003...".

(May 18, 2009) Who's On First? The Latest Comparison of USM and WCU "A number of reports here at USMNEWS.net have delved into institutional comparisons of one sort or another...".

(May 20, 2009) Ghosts, Professorships, & Ghost Professorships It's Time to Know What Happened to the Parham-Bridges & Williams "...What hasn't received a proper degree of attention is the disposition of the CoB's "ghost professorships" - i.e., endowments for professorships that are known to exist, only the whereabouts of the funding remain mysteries. ...".

(May 21, 2009) Dear USM news, "I am hoping you can print this letter anonymously. I could run into some trouble with certain members of my discipline in the COB otherwise...".

(May 18, 2009) Cherylynn Becker Moved to MGT "In what is being described as yet another bizarre move by CoB administrators, CoB tourism management professor Cherylynn Becker is being moved from the TM faculty to the MGT faculty, beginning with the 2009-10 academic year...".

(May 26, 2009) Secret Pay Raises? "Recent history at USM demands that faculty bodies, such as the Faculty Senate, consider once again the possibility that "secret" pay raises will be dispensed over summer 2009...".

(May 20, 2009) Reach Out and Touch a FINRELSer? Not During the Summer of 2009 "The first act by the chair of the CoB's new FINRELS department, Francis Laatsch, was to cut the departmental phone service during the summer of 2009. ...".

(May 24, 2009 ) Consider the following request in the April 2009 IHL report. What have our administrators done to request "...expansion of [liability] coverage [$4 million] ... intended to include claims against IHL trustees and employees for libel, slander and/or defamation that are not otherwise covered under the Tort Claims Act...? (Emphasis added.)

(May 27, 2009) Davis and George Elected to Faculty Senate "According to the May-09 Faculty Senate meeting minutes, the CoB's Donna Davis and Babu George have been elected to the USM Faculty Senate. Of course, when her name was placed on the ballot, Davis, a professor of decision sciences, was a rank-and-file faculty member...".

(May 26, 2009) No Corky in the CoB "Another year, another trip to the NCAA Regionals for the USM baseball team. This one (2009), however, was an improbable trip that came courtesy of USM's recent 3-win, 1-loss C-USA tournament...".

(May 27, 2009) UWF "The University of West Florida - UWF - sits near the beautiful beaches of Pensacola. It is the former professional home of USM president Martha Saunders, as well as that of a number of former CoB accountants...".

(May 6, 2009) Part 1 "By now many USMNEWS.net readers have learned that you (CoB decision sciences professor Donna Davis) have been named chairperson of the CoB’s new department of business economics and decision sciences (BEDS). Regardless of how the selection of you occurred, most CoBers outside of ECO are pulling for you to make a positive change in the BEDS...".

(May 27, 2009) Doty Back on Top "The College of Business & Technology at the University of Texas - Tyler has updated its main webpage. It now reflects the fact that former CoB dean D. Harold Doty is now its current dean by presenting the 'Message from the Dean.'..."

(June 3, 2009) Super Terrific "The 38-24 win-loss record may not be much to brag about, but Corky Palmer's Golden Eagles have gotten hot in the 2009 post-season...".

(June 9, 2009) Like Fine Wine "In light of the recent USMNEWS.net editorial The Games, reporters at USMNEWS.net compiled data on the age of the institutions that have hired the former CoB faculty who left USM in 2003 or later...".

(June 9, 2009) Is John Clark Leaving the CoB? "CoB associate professor of finance John Clark appears to be on his way out of USM's b-school. Clark's house is currently listed for sale on DeLois Smith's website, and stories have now begun...".

(May 28, 2009) Promotions to h4 "It's nearly impossible to have studied the CoB of the last few years and not have noticed how administrators there have perfected use of the "early promotion" to guarantee tenure later. ...".

(June 1, 2009) 60 Scary "Alcorn State University just cut 60 personnel positions from its budget, all in response to the dire economic/budgetary situation facing Mississippi's 8 public institutions of higher learning...".

(June 3, 2009) Nail's Road "The CoB's next visit from the AACSB, its national accrediting agency, will occur in February of 2012. That falls right about in the middle of the 2011-12 academic year...".

(June 1, 2009) . . . Like Donkey Kong "Imagine your associate dean off at his favorite meeting, pictured in a poncho and sombrero while holding a musket and standing two down from a similarly clad who is sitting on a donkey...".

(June 10, 2009) Underwater Professorships "The recent USMNEWS.net report, The Mermaid President, indicated that most of the student scholarships held by the USM Foundation are currently "under water," and that as a result the USMF will be able to award only 200 scholarships in 2009-10, down from the 620 of 2008-09...".

(Update June 11, 2009) Name-worthy Departed: CoB Faculty (2003-Present) Now at Named Colleges & Schools

(Update June 11, 2009) Former CoB Fish in Other Ponds THE BEST JOBS LANDED BY DOTY ERA FORMER COB FACULTY "Interest about where former CoB faculty are now working is always high among regular readers of USMNEWS.net...".

(June 12, 2009) Journal Ranking Malpractice "The recent update to the popular CoB's Brain Drain Illustrated History (part III) series presents some interesting statistics. To date, the faculty who departed the CoB for other academic environs in 2003 and thereafter have published articles in more than 100 unique academic journals...".

(June 4, 2009) Carter Thunk "It The popular "one year ago today" series here at USMNEWS.net recently reminded us all. Former CoB dean Harold Doty is [deleted]. Management professor David Duhon was undeservedly promoted...".

(June 4, 2009) Dollars for Doughnuts "Administrative salaries in USM's CoB have skyrocketed in recent years. For example, the CoB dean (Lance Nail) now earns $225,000 per year in salary alone. Chairs routinely earn over $125,000-to-$130,000 per year these days...".

(June 15, 2009) Zantow Ousted as Grad Programs Director "Stories are circulating around USM's b-school that associate professor of management Kenneth Zantow has been ousted as the CoB's graduate programs director...".