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(May 1, 2007) Special Report Now Holding the Reigns An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials One item that a number of usmnews.net readers have asked for of late is a report on the research backgrounds of the CoB’s new Interim Dean Alvin Williams (professor of marketing) and his Interim Associate Dean Joseph Peyrefitte (associate professor of management). Our investigators have put together that report (4/2007), and are making it available to you here. Table 1 summarizes the journal article publications of the two, using Business Source Complete and SEDONA records.

(May 4, 2007) Lambert's Research Keeping Pace Info from a USMNEWS.NET Reader An anonymous reader of USMNEWS.NET sent us some data and notes indicating that John Lambert, the visiting assistant professor of international business in the EFIB who was moved to a tenure-track line by an EFIB faculty vote on 27 April 2007, is "keeping pace" with the other newly-hired EFIB faculty.

(May 5, 2007)Pump You Up! A Look at the Professional Recording Practices of Farhang Niroomand Few, if any, CoB faculty go to the lengths that professor of economics and former CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand goes to in order to “promote” his professional accomplishments to other faculty and administrators at the University of Southern Mississippi. There is perhaps no better example of Niroomand’s “resume pumping” than that found in the 2005 USM Faculty Activity Report (FAR05), which was made available by USM’s Office of Institutional Research (see below).

(May 9, 2007) Special Report Into the Fold: Chang Hsieh's "Journal Family" An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials It is fairly well known within USM's College of Business that Chang Hsieh's "academic reach" (with regard to journal affiliations) is quite long. A quick look at Hsieh's SEDONA vita reveals that very picture:

(May 11, 2007) Life on the EFIB Plantation Will George Carter’s “Your Field Only” Rule for EFIB Research be Applied Equally? The subtitle above is the question of the day in the EFIB, and perhaps only time will reveal the answer, if ever. While we wait, reporters at USMNEWS.NET have compiled several tables in order to draw some preliminary findings about how the EFIB’s untenured faculty look against Carter’s unwritten rule about publishing only in one’s field of expertise. The series of tables below report refereed journal articles since the turn of the century for all untenured tenure-track faculty in the EFIB who are expected to submit tenure dossiers in the CoB. The information on refereed journals articles is taken from each faculty’s Sedona vita (provided to USMNEWS.NET via a Mississippi Open Records Act request).

(May 11, 2007) Sami Dakhlia: Deluded or Disingenuous? A recent report at usmnews.net revealed that Sami Dakhlia, author/presenter of last Friday’s attack on usmnews.net editor Marc DePree, has been pursuing a strategy to obtain tenure without having to follow the usual path. The following portion of one of Dakhlia’s emails to the EFIB Department was presented in the previous report.