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(October 22, 2007) Promotion Then, Promotion Now (Gunther + Klinedinst) < Marvasti Scrutiny of the research records of those on the so-called “2007-08 P&T Jailbreak Train” continues to pervade Greene Hall water cooler conversations as well as the news pages of USMNEWS.NET. One of the passengers on that train is associate professor of economics Akbar Marvasti, who was hired during the spring of 2006 from Pomona College, where he was serving as a visiting professor of economics. After just one year in USM’s College of Business, Marvasti submitted his application for promotion to full professor in September of 2007.

(November 1, 2007) Special Report What are They Up to Now? A Look at What Some of the “Doty Era Losses” are Now Doing As long-time readers are aware, usmnews.net not only reports on faculty departures as they happen, we also provide updates to the list of faculty departures since 2003, or the year that former Dean D. Harold Doty was hired by USM (from Syracuse) to serve as the Dean of the business school. The insert below shows just how extraordinary CoB faculty turnover has been since Doty arrived on the scene in 2003:

(November 30, 2007) Special Report Is the CoB it’s Own Little World? A Look at the Results of the Faculty Welfare Survey from Fall ‘07 At the beginning of fall semester 2007, USM faculty completed a “faculty welfare survey” that was sponsored by USM’s Faculty Senate. These surveys were filled out by CoB faculty at their respective Aug/Sept-07 departmental meetings. Recently, the FS’s Faculty Welfare Committee released the results of these surveys in a format that shows a college-by-college ranking of “faculty concerns” that are based on the information obtained from the surveys. USM faculty addressed six areas of potential concern through that fall 2007 survey.

(December 18, 2007) Special Report ECO’s “Backdoor” Comeback An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain The combination of Franklin Mixon’s recent resignation and the rise in prominence of the research records of Jon Carr (MGT), Fujun Lai (MIS), and Talai Osmonbekov (MKT) places the CoB’s economics unit at, or near, the bottom of the CoB’s research credentials ladder. Whether or not George Carter, the EFIB chair, can lead economics back up that ladder remains to be seen. What is becoming evident, though, is that the economists are putting together a plan that may get them started up that path. That plan involves use of the 2007-08 journal ranking process, headed by assistant professor of economics, Sami Dakhlia. Sources tell usmnews.net that Dakhlia is putting together a ranking of economics journals that will improve the standing of economics relative to the rest of the CoB.

(January 11, 2008) Accreditation 2012 -- The Impossible Dream? With the calendar turning over into 2008, the CoB's next attempt to retain its AACSB accreditation is already looming. The recent faculty departures of Barry Babin (MKT), Charles Sawyer (ECO), Sean Salter (FIN), and Franklin Mixon (ECO) -- all easily "Academically Qualified" by research, using the CoB's standard for its 2007 re-accreditation attempt -- will make things that much more arduous when 2012 rolls around. With the loss of 2007 to the so-called "6th Year Review" of 2007-08, things were already looking bleak.