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(August 29, 2008) CoB News, 2 September 2008 ECO Research Ranking Following the suggestion from a USMNEWS.net reader, CoB News, 22 April 2008 contained an analysis of the research portfolio in the CoB’s accounting department using www.harzing.com’s “Publish or Perish” software program. This program retrieves and analyzes Google Scholar citations. In doing so, it provides a series of eight citations metrics. Table 1 below presents the results for the CoB’s economists in the same format as that for the accountants that is found in the previous CoB News installment.

(September 5, 2008) Special Report Fashionably Great 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).

(September 8, 2008) Special Report Research Assignments in FIN An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials Recent reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net have highlighted the CoB’s new requirement that faculty focus their research efforts on those areas that match their teaching assignments. With those reports and editorials in mind, USMNEWS.net reporters examined the fall 2008 teaching assignments of the CoB’s FIN faculty in order to assess whether or not those faculty are engaging in research activities (if at all) that might jeopardize their good standing in the CoB. The fall 2008 teaching assignments are listed below in Table 1.

(September 21, 2008) ". . . Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To" An Editorial on Nail's New $1 Million Summer Research Program New CoB dean Lance Nail is to be applauded for convincing the Martha Saunders administration to provide $1 million in summer research support (for the CoB) over the next three years. This support, and Nail's leadership, will go a long way toward avoiding the AACSB accreditation troubles that seemed to define the CoB under former dean Harold Doty. The plan will also get the CoB's faculty moving back toward the quality standard set during the Tyrone Black administration, when students and alumni of USM's business school were so proud to be associated with an organization that was a vibrant place to study and learn.

(October 14, 2008) Special Report “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary” An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials Reports on the summer 2008 United States District Court depositions of various CoB accountants, including Mary Morgan Anderson, revealed quite a bit about the psyche of the CoB and JAG’s first-floor inhabitants.