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(July 23, 2009) USM Financial Situation Dire and Getting Worse "With Ed Kemp's 23-July-09 article for The Hattiesburg American entitled "USM prepares for budget cuts," you have to wonder just what now-former CoB associate professor of finance John Clark knows about USM's dire budgetary situation and why he is leaving for the University of Missouri - Kansas City...".

(August 4, 2009) 10 Over 100 "A recent search by USMEWS.net reporters turned up 10 different CoB faculty who have each garnered more than 100 Google Scholar cites. These 10 faculty are listed in order below...".

(August 6, 2009) Painting by Numbers Yet Again: A Look at Google Scholar Cites, Aug-09 "With talk of $2 million budget cuts and losses of academic programs in USM's CoB, it seemed like the proper time to bring back USMNEWS.net's series on Google Scholar cites to CoB faculty...".

(August 6, 2009) CoB Announces New Honors House "According to a 6-Aug-09 USM presser by Van Arnold entitled "College of Business Set to Unveil New Honors House," USM has renovated the old Kappa Sigma fraternity house, which was lost to the fraternity as a result of a hazing incident in Sept-08, to create a new Honors House for USM's b-school...".

(August 19, 2009) TELL US ABOUT IT A Look at Sami Dakhlia's Journal Publication Record "The quality, or lack thereof, of CoB associate professor of economics Sami Dakhlia's journal publication record has been the subject of much debate over at Economics Job Market Rumors in recent days...".

(August 17, 2009) Even After Cuts, Economists Remain at USM "Much has been made on various Internet sites about instruction of economics once the CoB's current crop of 9 tenure/tenure-track faculty have vacated their offices by 30-June-2010. Stories are being perpetuated, and proliferated, that USM will not be able to offer economics courses after 30-June-2010...".

(August 17, 2009) Enrollments & Economics: A Special Report on One Stretch of ECO's Road to the Present "The problem with student enrollments in the CoB's economics programs is a long-standing one that most faculty who have spent any time in USM's b-school know something about...".

(August 18, 2009) CoB Economists Boiling Over by Duane Cobb "The level of anger coming from the CoB's economists is reaching new heights with every day passing day...".

(August 18, 2009) CoB Economists Now Threatening to Leave at Year's End "If a recent anonymous post to Economics Job Market Rumors by a CoB economist is accurate, then the CoB economists' response to being terminated by year's end is to state that they aren't returning to USM after this year...".

(August 17, 2009) Carter Put Bonaparte Back Into Exile A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler "By now everyone has had a chance to digest the article about the USM budget cuts appearing recently in Inside Higher Ed entitled Cruel Irony. CoB economist, George Carter, ...".

(August 14, 2009) Saunders Said "Cut," Not "Move" "Amidst all the stinging comments the CoB's economists are now making about CoB dean Lance Nail and other members of the USM administration, it seems that...".

(August 14, 2009) "Dear USM news, I have been following debates that our economics colleagues have been trying to engage the Southern Miss community in over at the USM Forum. There they are trying an emergency appeal to their Southern Miss comrades...".

(August 14, 2009) Lyman Disease by Duane Cobb "To have USM provost Robert Lyman smiling at the prospect of hacking $8 million out of the institution's budget, as he appeared to be in the 12-Aug-09 article in The Hattiesburg American story entitled "USM prepares for cuts," could one day seriously harm his upward mobility in higher ed...".

(August 26, 2009) Dakhlia to Take Leave of Absence during Spring 2010 "USMNEWS.net has learned that CoB associate professor of economics, Sami Dakhlia (pictured below), will be taking a leave of absence during Spring Semester 2010 in order to teach abroad. Though many of the details of this assignment are still being put together and evaluated by USMNEWS.net, reporters have learned that Dakhlia’s leave of absence was approved weeks ago...".

(August 28, 2009) "In Plain Sight" "Former CoB economics professor Charles Sawyer's journey since leaving the CoB after the 2006-07 academic year has been an interesting one...".

(August 25, 2009) Ifs and Buts, Candy and Nuts "Former CBA dean, and current CoB economics professor, William Gunther told The Student Printz's Meryl Dakin that 'the economics department [at USM] could only be considered as overstaffed if the number of majors was the only factor considered.'..."

(September 10, 2009) On Borrowed Chatter "In case you hadn’t noticed already, USMNEWS.net’s GH Chatter series has been on overdrive lately, all in an effort to stay on top of the stories circulating about the CoB’s economists...".

(September 23, 2009) Marvasti Tenured at Sept-09 IHL Meeting "CoB economics professor Akbar Marvasti was tenured during a special consideration of his tenure application at the IHL Board's 16/17-Sept-09 meeting...".

(September 23, 2009) What They’re Getting: A Look At The Eco Research Credentials Heading To CoAL "A number of USMNEWS.net readers are wondering about the research credentials, particularly vis-à-vis compensation levels, of the four CoB economists are heading over to the CoAL to begin 2010-11...".

(September 25, 2009) Googling Administrators "From September 24, 2009 Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor Winzenburg makes an obvious-once it’s spoken-observation worthy of a little thought:...".

(September 29, 2009) Why Bonaparte Will Not Sue "Soon-to-be former CoB assistant professor Yosef Bonaparte was reportedly fired without cause by USM at the end of the 2008-09 academic year. He is now, during the 2009-10 academic season, presumably serving out a terminal contract...".

(October 1, 2009) Donna Davis to Retire After 2009-10 "In yet another surprise from the CoB’s decision sciences quarter, current DS professor (and BEDS chair) Donna Davis is set to retire after the 2009-10 academic year, which was her first as chair of the BEDS (business economics and decision sciences)...".

(October 1, 2009) Hsieh Named University Distinguished Professor "In a move that will most like come as a tremendous shock to many current and former CoB faculty and staff, the CoB’s Chang-Tseh Hsieh has been named as one of just four University Distinguished Professors by the Martha Saunders administration of USM...".

(October 1, 2009) The Davis Departure: What does it mean for the CoB? "When Donna Davis retires on June 30th, even if she has a phased retirement deal in place, it will alter her participation in the CoB. This is major news because she has been a force in the Lance Nail administration...".

(October 2, 2009) Donna Davis Actually Retiring "The news that Donna Davis has actually turned in her retirement letter is sweeping the CoB and around Southern Miss. Most of the amazement is that she has truly done it...".

(October 5, 2009) The Rule of 72 "With Donna Davis’ retirement from the CoB’s decision sciences group, the organization (the CoB) has now lost 72 faculty since the Harold Doty administration commenced in 2003...".

(October 7, 2009) An "Amazing Legacy" of "World Class" Failure of Integrity "President Saunders' blog, October 6, 2009, included 'He [Cecil Burge] is leaving an amazing legacy as our VP for Research and the bar is set very high for his successor.'...".

(Update October 7, 2009) Aunt Martha's Coaches: Has Saunders Lost the Magic Touch? Or, Did She Ever Have It? "After the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater won the Division III national championship in 2007, USM President Martha Saunders blogged that during the 2006-07 academic year while Chancellor at UW-W she had hired the first-year coach who led UW-W to the title...".

(October 9, 2009) “All too predictable.” "All too predictable bureaucratic “leadership” is characterized by _________...".

(October 13, 2009) Longing: An Editorial On The Way Things Are At Southern Miss "Today's (12-Oct-09) blog from USM president Martha Saunders, which invites USM faculty and staff to come and enjoy the festivities at the 13-Oct-09 "open house" for the new University Club, highlights the way things often work at USM...".

(October 15, 2009) Is AACSB Accreditation Worth the Cost? "In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education news report, 'Struggling Colleges Question the Cost-and Worth-of Specialized Accreditation' the lead-in stated, "In thinking about selecting a new dean for its business school this year, Southern New Hampshire University considered whether the new leader should guide the school to gain accreditation...".

(October 14, 2009) Tragic News "Everyone at usmnews.net would like to express our sorrow for the tragic, untimely death of Peter Wilkes, the eighteen year old Southern Miss punter...".

(October 15, 2009) Mississippi Could Learn From North Dakota "Mississippi taxpayers and lawmakers could learn a few lessons from North Dakota. See The Chronicle of Higher Education report: “North Dakota State University President Resigns Amid Uproar Over New House.” President Saunders squanders hundreds of thousands of state dollars...".

(October 20, 2009) Where Doty Failed: A New Look at the CoB’s Move of IB to MGT "The Lance Nail administration’s recent move of international business (IB) to management (MGT) marked the end of an age-old battle to have IB housed in the more appropriate confines of the general business curriculum...".

(October 21, 2009) Doty Now a Gas Production/Pricing Expert: Former CoB Dean Pontificates On Gas Prices In Tyler "Layron Livingston of KLTV in Tyler, TX, ran a report on 20-Oct-09 indicating that, after 7 days of price hikes, gas is selling at $2.49 per gallon in Tyler...".

(October 23, 2009) CoB News, 26 October 2009 "Williams Inducted into USM Alumni: HoF Former CoB interim dean Alvin Williams was recently inducted into the USM Alumni Hall of Fame...".

(October 23, 2009) Alumni Hall of Fame From: http://www.usm.edu/pr/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2879&Itemid=2 [Additional information and/or comments are in this color.] "Southern Miss Alumni Association to Induct Seven into its Hall of Fame ...".

(October 22, 2009) Don’t Cry for Bill, USM CoBers "With his impending USM retirement after this, the 2009-10, academic year, Bill Gunther’s long academic career may have come to an end...".

(October 22, 2009) One Pleasant Day in the CoB "Most people in the CoB could sense a change in the environment. It was intangible and not quite nameable at first, but it was real...".

(October 23, 2009) "Dear Dr. Dahlen, I saw your advertisement and was directed to your anger management website at USM...".

(October 26, 2009) Joining the News Media "usmnews.net is proud of the variety and population of our daily audience. In addition to our regular news reports and editorials, we provide reports about our readership...".

(October 27, 2009) Problems in the Accounting Profession "Please read a letter from Jimmy Allen, CPA, which is provided below. It describes a significant problem the CPA profession has with regard to its integrity. I wonder what the CPAs at USM’s School of Accountancy and Information Systems think of Mr. Allen’s letter and information...".

(October 29, 2009) CoB News, 26 October 2009 "Williams Inducted into USM Alumni: HoF Former CoB interim dean Alvin Williams was recently inducted into the USM Alumni Hall of Fame...".

(October 28, 2009) Are you listening, President Saunders? "John Thelin asks probing questions and makes interesting observations in “How to Bail Out Public Universities”, CHE (10/18/09):...".

(October 29, 2009) (Please see comments from the editor preceding the editorial which written by a contributor.) The Realities of Antonyms "Many in administration at Southern Miss like to use similar words when they describe their own actions, and what they have directed others to do...".

(August 14, 2009) Carter, Klinedinst Blast Nail, USM Administration "CoB economics professors George Carter and Mark Klinedinst have thrown down the gauntlet, accusing Lance Nail of targeting the CoB's economists, not just the CoB's economics programs...".

(August 11, 2009) The GS Cites Trap "Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have examined Google Scholar cites to research conducted by various CoB faculty. As in past reports in this series, the data examined recently have been unadjusted GS cites. That is, there has been no accounting for self-cites in the overall data. This report addresses that issue by subtracting self-cites from the overall data, using a 6-Aug-09 GS cites search for ACC...".

(August 7, 2009) Tedious: An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials "USMNEWS.net hears from readers from time to time, and one theme that has come across over the past three years pertains to the research records of CoB accounting professors Stanley Clark and Charles Jordan...".

(November 2, 2009) It Is Not Their Money, part 2 "The Hattiesburg American, November 1, 2009 , reported: “Mayor Johnny DuPree says that the city subsidizes about $800,000 of the zoo’s annual $1.2 million budget…”

(October 30, 2009) It Is Not Their Money "Two commonly asked questions are in fact interrelated. Why administrators, bureaucrats, and government officials...".

(October 30, 2009) Promises, Promises: Yet More Embarrassment Across Campus for the CoB "The 1-Sept-09 minutes from the University Research Council (URC) contained some interesting dialogue involving CoB economist Edward Nissan...".

(November 5, 2009) IT’S NOT THEIR MONEY! Part 3 "Why do Mississippi legislators and its governor use taxpayer dollars to support the USM Foundation when the Foundation is not subject to public accountability?...".

(November 6, 2009) IT’S NOT THEIR MONEY! Part 4 "What do President Saunders’ expenditure of taxpayer/student money to buy a $1.89 million dollar airplane for her personal convenience and Mayor DuPree’s spending city taxpayer dollars to buy an old church for $3 million before deciding on its use have in common?

(November 10, 2009) Turnover Unprecedented "It’s next to impossible to contemplate, as the 9-Nov-09 installment of GH Chatter does, even more faculty turnover in USM’s College of Business. The faculty turnover page here at USMNEWS.net was last updated in early Oct-09...".

(November 11, 2009) Blueprint for Bloat: A Look at How ECO Maintained Itself for Far Too Long "If you've been a regular reader of USMNEWS.net for any length of time, you've seen the phrase "their bloated existence" in reference to the CoB's economics unit, which many believe maintained several faculty lines beyond what was warranted by their population of majors...".

(November 13, 2009) Stan Clark Wins 2010 MSCPA Award "CoB accounting professor Stan Clark (pictured below) recently won the 2010 MSCPA Educator of the Year Award, following his "hero," CoB accounting professor Roderick Posey, who took home the award in 2009...".

(November 11, 2009) Devolution One Picture, A Few Words "The CoB has changed significantly since 2003, the year that former CoB dean D. Harold Doty took the reins of the organization (until 2007). The Doty years were so disastrous that many hoped...".

(November 12, 2009) Laatsch Key Kid? "With each passing week it more apparent why Lance Nail selected Frank Laatsch as Interim Chair of FINREBL. He is an experienced faculty member, he is a Finance guy, he is a CFA, he is reportedly easy-going, but the key trait that appears vital for Nail is...".

(November 16, 2009) Timing is Everything "Dr. Lance Nail is sending all the signals that he is looking for another job; that happens so often at Southern Miss that it must be taught as a “how to” at the AACSB New Dean’s Seminar...".

(November 17, 2009) Whither productivity? "Dr. Lyman has been dutifully informing the Southern Miss constituents that he, Martha, and the school itself will no longer actively defend low-productivity academic programs...".

(November 18, 2009) CoB Committees "In a strange move that is apparently the new norm for the CoB, no committees and no committee members have been announced for the 2009-2010 year...".

(November 24, 2009) The Mythical “Center” Devolves Again "The Center for Financial Services, raised by Michael Melton, ignored and then trashed by the team of John Clark and Harold Doty, has now been made of less importance once again...".

(November 24, 2009) CoB Shocking News of the Week "Three economists were seen inside the College of Business this week (week of 11/16/2009) at the same time...".

(November 30, 2009) Quote for the day taken from the Chronicle of Higher Education "Universities can and will hire lobbyists and communications professionals to pitch our importance...".

(December 3, 2009) A Test for Faculty "Words are insufficient to grasp what Mr. Nelson is trying to convey in his recent CHE editorial “The AAUP: A View From the Top.” ...".

(December 3, 2009) Got Early Finals? Fall Semester 2009 Apparently Already Over for CoB MKT Faculty, Perhaps Others "Judging by her recent 17-Nov-09 blog on the USM homepage, CoB marketing student Kiersten Knaus' fall semester 2009 is already over...".

(December 2, 2009) Top Stories of 2009 by Duane Cobb, part 3 "Long-time readers of USMNEWS.net are probably aware that I like to provide “Top __” type lists from time to time. The end of the year is a popular occasion for such a thing. In this three-part series, of which this is Part 3, I am providing my Top 10 news stories of 2009. Let’s get to the list...". See also, part 1 and part 2 of the series.

(December 9, 2009) USM Suspends Admissions into CoB MIS Program "USM provost Robert Lyman reported to the USM Faculty Senate (on 4-Dec-09) that USM will suspend admissions into the CoB's MIS program beginning in January of 2010...".

(December 10, 2009) Publishing Around the CoB: Dec-09 Edition "It has been some time since USMNEWS.net took a look at scholarly activity among the CoB’s current crop of faculty...".

(December 10, 2009) Top Asset in Accounting Departing "The top asset in the School of Accounting is departing...".

(December 17, 2009) Hansen Departing the CoB "Newly-hired CoB marketing assistant professor John Hansen is departing the CoB after this year. Hansen, who came to the CoB from Northern Illinois University, will be heading east, to the University of Alabama - Birmingham...".

(December 23, 2009) Skip gets another administrative assistant "As reported on usmnews.net, Melissa McIntyre has departed the confines of the Skip Hughes-led School of Accounting for a better position on campus. Usmnews.net has learned that Skip tried to talk Lisa Mader, BEDS secretary, into coming down to Accounting...".

(December 23, 2009) Carrying Costs: A LOOK AT HAROLD DOTY'S CANEBRAKE MONEY PIT "An old USMNEWS.net report entitled CoB Castles shows that former CoB dean Harold Doty owned a Canebrake (tony Hattiesburg neighborhood) home valued by county tax authorities at $353,580...".

(December 7, 2009) Are USM Administrators Like Virginia Tech Administrators? "It's worthwhile to consider that question after reading a Chronicle of Higher Education article, 'Updated Report on Virginia Tech Shootings Highlights New Notification Delays.'...".
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(January 4, 2009) Gevrek Resigns, Leaves USM Behind "USMNEWS.net reporters have learned that CoB assistant professor of economics Deniz Gevrek has resigned her position on the USM faculty and has (or soon will have) departed Hattiesburg...".

(January 5, 2010) Flynn Arrives:CoB's New Marketing Chair Arrives Mid-Year "The long-awaited arrival of the CoB's new marketing chair, Leisa Flynn, from Florida State University is now reality...".

(January 5, 2010) The EuStachy Code: Another Look at Larry Eustachy's Destruction of USM Basketball "Nearing the mid-point of sixth season as head men's basketball coach at the University of Southern Mississippi, Larry Eustachy's career USM record is a much-to-be-desired 84 wins and 84 losses...".

(January 6, 2010) CoB News "Gevrek Takes the B? The recent USMNEWS.net . . breaking news . . . report about the departure of CoB economist Deniz Gevrek shocked some in the CoB family...".

(December 9, 2009) What if Dave Duhon became the dean? "Assuming Lance Nail, Dean of the CoB at Southern Miss, is looking for another dean position, what if Dave Duhon, Chair of Management, was named interim dean?...".

(January 6, 2010) Malik back in Pocket: Mysterious Fall 2009 Leave of Absence Concludes "CoB economist-turned-finance prof Farooq Malik has returned to Hattiesburg, fresh off of a mysterious one-semester (Fall 2009) leave of absence...".

(December 11, 2009) Buffoonery: Looking Back on the ECO Hiring Debacle of 2006-07 "USMNEWS.net's recent reprinting of Part 1 of "Rock, Paper, Scissors --- Rock!" reminds everyone who follows USM's b-school just how disastrous the George Carter administration (2005-09)...".

(December 14, 2009) Getting the Message "Does the following mean that some of the faculty at LSU get it?...".

(December 22, 2009) Blue Raiders topple Eagles "New Orleans Bowl 2009: MTSU 42, USM 32. USM led 14-0 early and then faded. That is a metaphor for USM...".

(December 18, 2009) The Skip Hughes Train "It doesn't take a genius to understand that when USM hires from a place like LSU it's not getting the cream of the crop. ...".

(December 22, 2009) CoB Rising "In the past several weeks USMNEWS.net has been re-running a number of reports highlighting the demise of the CoB's economics unit. As part of that, a report about George Carter's views on subjective grading has been re-run on multiple occasions. There's a good reason for it -...".

(January 7, 2010) After Doty's Own Heart: Former CoBer Laurie Babin Lands what Some Call an Ill-Fitting Professorship "Former CoB marketing professor Laurie Babin, currently with the University of Louisiana - Monroe, is now the Nelson Abell Jr. Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship...".

(January 8, 2010) MIS Set to Join FINREBL "Reports are now circulating that the CoB's management information systems unit (a.k.a. decision sciences) will soon be joining the department of finance, real estate and business law (FINREBL)...".

(January 12, 2010) Gevrek on the Island "Once again reports prove accurate as the Texas A&M - Corpus Christi website confirms that former CoB economist Deniz Gevrek is now an economics faculty at the Texas-based institution...".

(December 15, 2009) CoBers' 2009 Christmas Lists . . . Just for Fun, part 6. Click here for part 1. Click here for part 2. Click here for part 3. Click here for part 4. Click here for part 5.

(January 7, 2010) Do the Right Thing . . . . . . At Least Once "A belief shared by many is that CoB associate professor of economics, Trellis Green, is being forced to be a part of the group of five mostly senior economists who are retiring on 30-June-10...".

(January 20, 2010) CoB News, 20 January 2010 "Watching Ms. Martha -- USMNEWS.net readers who are interested in some of the weightier issues surrounding academia should venture over to the Mississippi IHL website and view the podcast of the Dec-09 IHL Board meeting. At the end of that meeting an IHL official takes the podium and reviews changes that Mississippi's higher ed governing board is about to make to the rules/regs surrounding termination of tenured and tenure-track faculty across the state...".

(January 8, 2010) 0001331: A Guest Editorial On Booze Accounts And Such "The title of this editorial is the actual job posting number for the "W.P. Bridges Professor of Real Estate" position in the USM b-school...".

(January 13, 2010) Must Reading for University Administrators "Must reading and implementation for university administrators is a report from The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled: 'Administrators Must Dispel the Derogatory Myths About Professors.'...".

(January 15, 2010) Centenial Events Begin "In addition to the events described in the President’s blog (like the basketball floor emblem) about Centennial events, there are others under way around campus. Martha has the groundskeepers in high gear - even in the sub-freezing temperatures - trimming the trees and shrubs in a new way...".

(January 15, 2010) HB 329 "Dear Colleagues, Many of you may already have seen HB 329. It is only two short paragraphs and a few sentences long...".

(January 12, 2010) Court Records Report Stephen Bushardt's Spousal and Alcohol Abuse "Stephen Bushardt, who recently retired as a management professor from the College of Business, University of Southern Mississippi, was the subject of a Temporary Restraining Order obtained by his wife in the course of divorce proceedings...".

(January 13, 2010) Bushardt to Join Doty in 2010-11? More and More Reports Say It’s for Real "Reports continue to come to USMNEWS.net indicating that former CoB management professor Stephen Bushardt, now a management professor at Spring Hill College, will be joining former CoB dean Harold Doty at the University Texas at Tyler for the 2010-11 academic year...".

(January 13, 2010) "Don't Blink: An Investigative Report on CoB Administration Changes "These days in the CoB, if you blink your eyes you face the possibility of not seeing the entire management team change...".

(January 20, 2010) "Gunther Gets Gevreked: Retiring Professor Gets 3-Course Load in Final Semester "CoB economics professor William Gunther has historically maintained a 2/2 teaching load as a result of his directorship of the CoB’s Bureau of Business and Economics Research...".

(January 25, 2010) Skipping Out? "According to an announcement in the Jackson FREE PRESS, Mark Klinedinst (pictured below) is organizing the 27-Jan-2010 "Mississippi Education Rally" that is being sponsored by the Mississippi Statewide Consortium for the Improvement of Education (MSCIE)...".

(February 3, 2010) Mark Klinedinst's Day Off "The 27-Jan-10 education rally held on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol has come and gone, and it appears as though CoB economics professor Mark Klinedinst(picture 4 in series) took the day off from classes, as predicted in a recent USMNEWS.net report (Skipping Out?)...".

(February 5, 2010) Teaching Lesson? "As teachers, we are always looking for new ways effectively to communicate complex ideas to our students...".

(January 18, 2010) Dean Doty = Dr. Chaos "Anyone familiar with the D. Harold Doty administration of USM’s b-school from 2003-07 probably believes that his presence as dean at the University of Texas at Tyler is creating a little chaos (probably more) at that school...".

(February 1, 2010) WHAT HAPPENED TO USM’S ENDOWMENT? "The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a list of College and University Endowments for 2008 through 2009. USM does not appear on the list at all. In fact, the only Mississippi colleges and universities appearing on the list are:...".

(February 11, 2010) Klinedinst Continues to Soar "CoB economics professor Mark Klinedinst (shown below) continues to engage USM president Martha Saunders (shown below) in one political battle after another. He also, as reports indicate, continues to hold his own...".

(February 2, 2010) A Multiple Choice Test "CNBC published a report of the “Biggest 2009 College Endowment Losses”. According to CNBC “[a]ccording to a new study by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the Commonfund Institute, endowments and affiliated foundations...”.

(February 17, 2010) An ECoAL Future "As regular USMNEWS.net readers are aware, the CoB's economics unit has been cut from nine economists to three by the Lance Nail/Martha Saunders administration of the CoB/USM...".

(February 4, 2010) Details II "Reports to usmnews.net say that the lack of dean’s office oversight to details continue...". For Details, part I, click here.

(February 18, 2010) A Change in Opinion "A report in the February 17, 2010 Chronicle of Higher Education reports a troubling change in public opinion directed at colleges and universities. According to Public Opinion of Higher Education Continues Downward Slide by Eric Kelderman:...".

(February 15, 2010) Parsing Plane Talk "The recent Student Printz article about the USM plane raises more concerns than it actually addresses. First, USM president Martha Saunders appears to realize the ill-advised nature of the decision to lease the plane from the USM Foundation...".

(February 19, 2010) Campus Dialogues "Reading the republished editorial Saunders-Amodeo Relationship Should be Examined, called for usmnews.net to revisit that relationship. After all, who had heard about “Campus Dialogues” or “Core Dialogues” since - well since January 2008?...".

(February 23, 2010) "Strategic Planning" "One of the things that revisiting President Saunders’ early days as president has encouraged usmnews.net reporters to review is what she has actually accomplished. Dr. Saunders has announced many initiatives with great fanfare, but what have those initiatives accomplished?...".

(February 23, 2010) Worth the Price? "Usmnews.net reporters reached out to colleagues from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to gather information concerning the Saunders, Amodeo, idgroup connection...".

(February 24, 2010) Wittmann "Competes" for Teaching Award ? "Van Arnold's 23-Feb-10 presser entitled"Marketing Professor Receives Teaching Excellence Award" informed the USM family that CoB associate professor of marketing, Michael Wittmann, will compete for the title 2010 Hormel Master Marketing Teacher...". More CoB News, click here.

(February 25, 2010) Questions to Dr. Saunders "After USMNEWS.NET reporters reached out to colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, some interesting claims began to emerge and reporters began to receive information...".

(February 26, 2010) Shattered "The recent elimination of economics majors/faculty in USM's b-school have left USM economics faculty shattered. Table 1 below shows just how many economics faculty were at USM at about the middle of 2009 ("Then")...".

(March 2, 2010) No Comment "As previously reported, usmnews.net has been receiving documents from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater concerning Dr. Saunders’ use of state resources during the brief time she held the job as Chancellor...".

(March 1, 2010) A Right to Know "More documents have arrived from colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. The most recent is a credit card receipt showing $1974.77 charged to Dr. Saunders’ UW-W credit card to pay for her husband, Joe Bailey, joining her on a flight to London, England...".

(March 1, 2010) More than 3 Million Served "The tally on the front page of USMNEWS.net says more than 3,003,000 hits. That's right, more than 3 million served...".

(February 23, 2010) Letter to the Editor: business ethics at USM (published in today's Student Printz)

(March 3, 2010) USM Could Lose 100 Faculty "USM provost Robert Lyman told USM constituents that USM could lose 100 faculty in the coming months as the institution struggles to deal with what some believe will be a total budget cut of $30-$35 million from 2009 levels...".

(March 15, 2010) USM Athletics Continues to Drain USM’s Coffers "After the 65 teams for the 2010 NCAA men’s basketball championship were announced on 14-Mar-2010, the 32 teams participating in the 2010 NIT were revealed. Next, the 16 participants in the new CBI were made public...".

(March 18, 2010) Eustachy Flops in First Round of CIT "Larry Eustachy’s USM Eagles were just soundly defeated by the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs in round one of the 2010 CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT)...".

(March 22, 2010) USM Makes Regional News: Could Lose 100 Faculty "An 18-Mar-10 article by the Mobile Press-Register reporter Renee Busby entitled “Poor economy bites into university faculty salaries” ...".

(March 22, 2010) Nail Pops Carter . . . Again CoB’s Stats Courses will be LARGE in Fall 2010 "With elimination of the CoB’s economics degrees, and the imminent departure of all CoB economics faculty, ...".

(March 8, 2010) Skip Hughes' Trap "The USMNEWS.net audio library received some new volumes recently. These came courtesy of new accounting director, Kirby E. "Skip" Hughes. I fully expect these volumes to be checked out regularly by USMNEWS.net reporters...".

(March 9, 2010 ) The Incredible Shrinking Dome "Recent disclosure of University of Wisconsin at Whitewater documents show that USM president Martha Saunders engaged in a number of financial shenanigans while chancellor there. With what we know about Saunders’ behavior at UWW, what might be going on at USM?...".

(March 9, 2010 ) The Last Paradigm Shift "As Donna Davis heads into retirement (phased or otherwise), it is increasingly clear that she is no longer a player in the College of Business....".

(March 23, 2010) ‘Skip’ Carter by Duane Cobb "The tapes of new accounting director Kirby “Skip” Hughes are a hot item in the USMNEWS.net library. Of course, they don’t represent the first time we’ve heard a CoB administrator denigrate the research accomplishments of a CoB faculty...".

(March 23, 2010) Bad Business? "The Mississippi IHL met earlier this month and finalized faculty sabbatical requests for the public universities it governs. As the data show, not a single CoBer will be taking a sabbatical during the 2010-11 academic year. Those USM faculty whose applications were approved are listed below:...".

(March 24, 2010) IHL Moves to Eliminate CoB’s MIS Program "With what some are characterizing as yet another surprising (and bold) turn, Mississippi’s IHL (the governing body of public universities) moved to cancel the CoB’s MIS program at its March-2010 board meeting...".

(March 26, 2010) Guess who is Scrambling for a Vacated ECO Line: A Guest Column by Susan Greene-Lewis "The ink is barely dry on reports that the CoB’s Sami Dakhlia, associate professor of economics, is leaving USM for a university in France and already there is a race to recycle his salary line...".

(March 24, 2010) MGCCC Prez Publicly Scolds USM’s Saunders: Lott Accuses USM Prez of Propagandizing "The rift between USM and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College over MGCCC’s decision to provide a special offer on its Gautier facility to the University of South Alabama took a turn for the surreal. ...".

(April 1, 2010) Happy Birthday USMNEWS.net "This week - the week of 29-Mar-10 through 2-Apr-10 - USMNEWS.net celebrates its fourth birthday...".

(March 24, 2010) Dakhlia Bids CoB Adieu CoB: ECO Prof Accepts Teaching Post across the Pond "Reports streaming into USMNEWS.net indicate that CoB associate professor of economics, Sami Dakhlia, has executed a resignation statement effective at the end of the 2009-10 academic year...".

(April 2, 2010) Centennial Week in the CoB by Duane Cobb "This week, 29-Mar through 2-Apr of 2010, USM reached the 100-year mark. Of course, there was a lot of pomp and circumstance, and USM president Martha Saunders pranced around campus as much as expected (if not more)...".

(March 25, 2010) Bachelor of Arts in Marvasti & Monchuk (M&M) "The 2009-10 elimination of economics from USM’s CoB sent only four of the unit’s 10 faculty to the College of Arts & Letters...".

(March 26, 2010) Old School: A Look at how the CoB’s Economists were Sent Packing "The move in recent months by USM to eliminate its business economics programs and faculty has been covered by both regional and national media...".

(April 8, 2010) 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...".

(April 9, 2010) GTL Baby! A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler "Some people are famous for famously doing nothing. Such is the case with the cast of one of America’s hottest reality television shows, Jersey Shore...".

(April 12, 2010) Looking for a New Dean "So many college and university visitors who come to usmnews.net are looking for information about D. Harold Doty, a past-Dean of the College of Business at USM, that we have a difficult time believing he's applying to so many schools and so soon after moving to Tyler, Texas...".

(March 30, 2010) CoB to Get New Building "The Mississippi legislature recently approved a $13 million construction plan for a new College of Business facility at USM. This gives Lance Nail a major accomplishment, although sources say the push for a new building began during the William Gunther administration (1998-2003) of the CBA...".

(April 5, 2010) Dugan to Join CoB Accounting Faculty "Reports have been coming into the USMNEWS.net news division for some time stating that Michael Dugan, the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting at the University of Alabama, will be joining the CoB’s accounting faculty in 2010-11...".

(April 6, 2010)The Three-Tiered CoB School of Accounting "The potential addition of University of Alabama accountant Michael Dugan to the CoB’s School of Accounting does, as the recent . . . Breaking News . . . report indicates, create a three-tiered accounting school, at least as far as A-level publications goes...".

(April 6, 2010) Jordan Claims 2010 AT&T Award "CoB accounting professor Charles Jordan took home the 2010 AT&T Outstanding Faculty Award at the recent CoB awards banquet. Jordan’s win marks the third time in the past four years that a CoB accountant has received the award...".

(April 13, 2010) Doty was Duped . . . What is Nail’s Excuse? "Regular readers of USMNEWS.net should visit the site’s Archives from time to time. I was just there recently, looking back at The Past 30 Years, a report submitted by a USMNEWS.net reader about one of the ugliest episodes in recent CoB history.

(April 12, 2010) On the Clock: A Look at the 2011 Louis K. Brandt Award Race "The 2010 CoB awards banquet has come and gone, and now CoB faculty are on the clock for the 2011 awards banquet. There the 2011 AT&T Outstanding Faculty Award will be handed out, as will the 2011 Louis K. Brandt Research Award...".

(April 13, 2010) Putting the “Gap” in “Gappy” Examining the USM Departure of Sami Dakhlia "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...".

(April 16, 2010)Dugan to Direct CoB’s MPA Program"Reports coming into USMNEWS.net news offices indicate that newly hired professor of accounting Michael Dugan will assume the directorship of the CoB’s MPA program ...".

(April 14, 2010) From the Ghost of Christmas Future "Message from Message from the New Dean Welcome to the College of Business Administration webpage here at Central Michigan University. I am now back in the great white north, and happy to be here as your new dean...".

(April 14, 2010) Gone and Now Remembered "... All too many people like to revise history to suit their own personal desires. When Horace Fleming was President of USM he was a man ahead of his time...".

(April 19, 2010) What has the USM Administration Done Now? "With a The Hattiesburg American news story on 17-April-10, which followed a USM press release of 16-April-10 - both discussing cryptic violations of IHL Board policies by the USM Research Foundation...".

(April 15, 2010) Bad President Fatigue "The recent USMNEWS.net editorial about the dedication of a USM-GC education center to former USM president Horace Fleming struck a chord with many. Fleming may have become USM’s greatest president if only the USM family had properly accepted him...".

(April 15, 2010) One Hundred Minus Ten by Duane Cobb "Institutions that get to 100 years deserve to celebrate. This year, 2010, Southern Miss made it to that point...".

(April 20, 2010) Some Say Klinedinst Now Worsening Budget Crisis for USM Faculty and Staff "Word coming from some who have communicated with USMNEWS.net indicates that economic professor Mark Klinedinst may now be harming the efforts of USM faculty who are attempting to navigate the current USM budget crisis...".

(April 22, 2010) Retirees "What will the economist retires do once they depart in June? Here are some thoughts:..".

(April 21, 2010) USM Research Foundation Scandal Heating Up "The 20-April-2010 issue of The Hattiesburg American reports that the situation surrounding possible misconduct in the USM Research Foundation has moved from the inquiry stage to the official investigation stage...".

(April 26, 2010) Elimination without Representation: How Dereliction of Duty Meant that Klinedinst’s Crusade of 2009-10 was too Little, too Late "For months the campus at the University of Southern Mississippi has been bogged down in the politics of budget-cutting...".

(April 28, 2010) The von Herrman Solution "The recent USMNEWS.net report Saved by Departures includes some quotes from soon-to-be-former CoB economist Sami Dakhlia...".

(April 23, 2010) They're Out "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. That series focuses on the research of ...". See also, Examining the Departure of William Gunther; Daniel Monchuk; Edward Nissan and George Carter; Trellis Green; Akbar Marvasti; Mark Klinedinst.

(May 6, 2010) Skip Exposed by Duane Cobb "The one-time LSU accountant, Kirby “Skip” Hughes, came to USM’s b-school (in 2009) with a decent record. He had some good journal pubs, and he held a chaired position. However, as the old saying goes - that was then, this is now...".

(April 26, 2010) USM Research Foundation Scandal Becoming Clearer? Sun Herald Reports that Pinion Properties at Center of Situation "According to Melissa Scallan’s 22-Apr-2010 story for the Sun Herald newspaper, former USM employees Richard and Helene Hadden and the USM Research Foundation’s Pinion Properties are at the center of the recent scandal involving the USMRF...".

(April 27, 2010 update) The Kingdom Ignored: One of the AQ-PQ Debacles that Almost Cost the CoB AACSB Accreditation "There are so many reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net that describe how former CoB dean Harold Doty completely bungled the USM b-school’s 2007 AACSB re-accreditation effort...".

(April 28, 2010) Breaking Bad: How Fraught With Misrepresentation Was The 2007 Reaccreditation Dossier? "A comparison of the CoB’s 2007 6th-Year AACSB Review report with Accounting’s separate 2007 6th-Year AACSB Review report yields some interesting findings...".

(May 7, 2010) The Joe Morgan Resignation - What They’re Saying "As one might imagine, the resignation of USM chief financial officer is a popular water cooler topic these days. Below is a sample of what USMNEWS.net readers and others are saying about it:...".

(April 28, 2010) AQ Anomalies from the CoB’s 6th Year AACSB Review: How the CoB Categorized its Faculty to Put the Best Face on its 2007 AACSB Dossier "Thanks to a tip from a USMNEWS.net reader, reporters at USMNEWS.net are now reviewing the CoB’s 6th Year Review Report for its 2007 AACSB reaccreditation...".

(May 10, 2010) "Dear usmnews: The elimination of economics is a despicable event that has destroyed the best department at the University of Southern Mississippi...".

(May 10, 2010) Unified But Unequal "The two branches of the University of Southern Mississippi have never been equal...".

(April 29, 2010) The CoB Catalogue, 2010 "The "CoB Catalogue, 2010" provides USMNEWS.net readers with a look at the typical level of scholarly output in the CoB during a given year...".

(May 6, 2010) Holding Class Outside? A Look At Teaching Quality Across The Magnolia State "Once again USMNEWS.net contributors are on the trail of teaching quality at USM and other senior higher ed institutions in Mississippi. Table 1 below shows the Top 10 institutions, rated by instruction quality (using RateMyProfessors)...".