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(August 29, 2006) Special Report What can We Learn from the CoB's Webpages? An Investigation into Information about the CoB "This Special Report examines some of the more interesting items available on the CoB's webpages. Below you will find several screens taken from various parts of the College of Business' homepage at www.usm.edu, along with some commentary for each...".

(September 1, 2006) Special Report "Can't?" Or, "Won't?" An Investigative Series on CoB Research Activities This "Special Report" examines the subject of prior documents here at usmpride.com --- Roderick Posey's (Professor and former Director of SAIS) lack of research output. Though he claims to have published over 100 articles related to accounting issues, investigators at usmpride.com could only turn up two of those from a handful of well-known data sources (e.g., Google Scholar, EBSCOhost, etc.).

(October 3, 2006) Why did Mississippi taxpayers spend thousands of dollars to send Dr. Posey to AACSB meetings? "... The first and most fundamental AACSB accreditation standard is "The school publishes a mission statement . . ." We are now only a few months away from the CoB/SAIS AACSB visit and Dr. Posey first becomes aware that the SAIS mission statement does not pass muster for AACSB approval. And by the way, our learning goals are wrong, too. What else did Dr. Posey miss? It's not as though Mississippi taxpayers didn't invest thousands of dollars over the past few years sending Dr. Posey to various seminars to learn AACSB standards. His most recent trip was in February 2006 to attend an AACSB Seminar in San Antonio, TX at a cost to the taxpayers of $2,209.59...".

(October 6, 2006) Special Report Posey & Doty Hit the Beach An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Travel "This Special Report looks at a trip to Myrtle Beach made by Roderick Posey (Professor of Accounting) and CoB Dean Harold Doty in July of 2004. As the insert below shows, the pair traveled to South Carolina to attend the Southern Business Administration Association meeting...".

(October 16, 2006) 31st & Pearl Crockett is Back? "Stories are now spreading around the CoB suggesting that former SAIS Director James Crockett has been hired by the CoB as a consultant. To that you ask: For what? To write the AACSB reaffirmation report for the School of Accountancy and Information Systems. It seems that Roderick Posey, the most recent SAIS Director to give up the position, couldn't get the job done. What about the $117,000 salary Posey has been earning the past few years as SAIS Director? What about the $5,000 in AACSB-]related travel Posey has engaged in over the past 18 months? Just what was Posey doing while Director of SAIS?...".