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(February 11, 2009) Special Report Name that Former CoBer An Investigative Report on CoB Faculty Research Credentials The 6-Feb-09 update to the Special Report “Name-worthy” reminds USMNEWS.net readers that former CoB associate professor of international business Len Trevino is now affiliated with Loyola University in New Orleans. With his recent (Jan-09) move to LU, Trevino becomes the 10th former CoB faculty to have joined a named business college/school since leaving the CoB in or after 2003.

(March 22, 2009) Our Most Talented Colleagues Unique A-Level Hits of Current & Former CoB Faculty – Economics In May of 2007, untenured assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia, a first-year CoB faculty who, to use EFIB chairman George Carter's term, had just been "canned" by the University of Alabama, took the floor at the end of the CoB's spring 2007 convocation. He then proceeded to blast the USMNEWS.net editor and various CoB faculty for speaking out against the CoB's administration in a way Dakhlia felt encouraged his (Dakhlia's) most talented colleagues to leave USM. Of course, Dakhlia wasn't speaking out in support of those CoB faculty who had been abused by CoB administrators, as management professor Sharon Topping had spoken for only minutes before Dakhlia was handed the rostrum by then-interim CoB dean Alvin Williams. The faculty Topping referred to were beginning to leave the CoB as well by spring of 2007. Dakhlia, however, was, according to sources, speaking on behalf of CoBers (and Dakhlia's friends) like Zaher Hallab (tourism management) and Akbar Marvasti (economics), CoB administrators' favorites who were either leaving the CoB at that time or expressing a desire to do so.

(August 20, 2009) "In Plain Sight" A LOOK AT WHAT FACULTY ARE DOING TO ESCAPE THE COB Former CoB economics professor Charles Sawyer's journey since leaving the CoB after the 2006-07 academic year has been an interesting one. Sawyer joined Texas Christian University's ADDRAN College of Liberal Arts in August of 2007 as its Hal Wright Professor of Latin American Economics.

(September 24, 2009) CoB News, 24 September 2009 "Some More Akbars" A number of reports here at USMNEWS.net have indicated, in one way or another, that both Akbar Marvasti and Sami Dakhlia have received a disproportionate level of favorable treatment since arriving in Hattiesburg in the summer of 2006. Despite both being classified as "fair-haired boys," it has also been the case that Marvasti has, time and again, received favorable treatment that exceeds even that given to Dakhlia.