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(July 12, 2008 ) Public Service Announcement, 12-July-2008 If you are considering new employment as a faculty member in USM's College of Business Administration, this PSA could easily be one of the most important notices you read in your professional life. There are enough "bad practices" that routinely occur in USM's CoB to threaten your academic career should you choose employment there. Any one of these could step out and bite you, and at any moment. But, there is a new threat emerging in USM's CoB that should give anyone pause when considering a job offer from there. That threat comes via the potential nefarious use of a new policy being enforced by CoB administrators.

(July 15, 2008 ) CoB News, 15 July 2008 Google Scholar Cites in FM and MKT USMNEWS.net reporters have completed the updates to CoB faculty Google Scholar citations totals. This installment of CoB News examines the new numbers for FM and MKT. These new data are shown in Table 1 below.

(July 14, 2008 ) CoB News, 14 July 2008 Just Who Was Mary Anderson Really Criticizing? The recent Special Report entitled Built by Englebrecht spotlights some of Mary Morgan Anderson's recent U.S. District Court testimony. In her federal court deposition, Anderson, an associate professor of accounting in USM's CoB, made a point of criticizing the USMNEWS.net editor's academic research by stating that his recent publication in The CPA Journal did not examine an "accounting related" topic and that it was not counted (by the CoB) for AACSB accreditation purposes. Anderson went so far as to testify that this particular publication in The CPA Journal was not even something that the CoB's School of Accountancy should be proud of.

(July 15, 2008 ) Special Report The Greatest Ever An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials A USMNEWS.net reader recently commented that the list of CoB faculty who have exited the CoB since 2003 contains the names of individuals who are arguably the best scholars to have ever represented their particular units in USM's business school. That comment inspired the idea for a new series on the greatest scholars to have graced the suites of each unit in the CoB. Interestingly, the common thread among these individuals is that they were generally brought to USM under the business school leadership of former CBA dean, Tyrone Black. And, among the ones who have left the business school for other pastures (usually greener ones), most of them departed under the leadership of either former CBA dean, William Gunther, or former CoB dean, Harold Doty (usually the latter). Not all of the greatest ever have left the CoB. That's where we begin, and we do so with someone who sources say is the greatest finance scholar the business school at USM has ever had. It's fitting that we begin here because this person, finance professor Tom Lindley, is also tabbed by sources as the greatest scholar USM's business school has ever had.