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(April 23, 2010) CoB News 23 April 2010 Hwang on the Move -Former CoB tourism management professor Johye Hwang has moved on from her post at the University of Missouri. Hwang is now affiliated with the tourism management college at Kyung Hee University in South Korea. Like some other former CoBers who left the CoB in 2003 or later, Hwang has been doing well on the research front. That trend has not ceased, as she recently rewarded her new employer for their recent selection of her with a publication in the European Journal of Operational Research.

(April 24, 2010) They’re Out Examining the Departures of the CoB Economists As the CoB’s economists depart the Joseph Greene Hall stage at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, USMNEWS.net examined the research credentials that will be leaving the CoB, if not the institution as a whole. That series focuses on the research of George Carter, Sami Dakhlia, Trellis Green, William Gunther, Mark Klinedinst, Akbar Marvasti, Daniel Monchuk, and Edward Nissan.

(April 26, 2010) Saved by Departures Two Retiring ECO Faculty may Remain at USM After 2009-10 It seems now that the surprise resignations of CoB economists Deniz Gevrek and Sami Dakhlia have worked to save two of the five mostly senior CoB economists who were set to retire after 2009-10 so that Gevrek, Dakhlia, Daniel Monchuk and Akbar Marvasti can continue their USM careers. This information comes to the USM family via Ed Kemp’s 26-April-2010 article in The Hattiesburg American entitled “USM must add 2 economics professors.”

(May 6, 2010) CoB News 6 May 2010 M&M at William Carey - A recent report here at USMNEWS.net reminds readers that some former CoB faculty are now at USM’s cross-town rival, William Carey University. One of these is Michael Madaris, who was recently a finance faculty in USM’s business college. While at USM, Madaris was thought of as a good classroom instructor, a quality that WCU b-school students are no doubt benefitting from these days.

(May 7, 2010) Dear usmnews: The elimination of economics is a despicable event that has destroyed the best department at the University of Southern Mississippi.

(May 25, 2010) Tracking Turnover through Tenure A Look at How Bad Leadership has Impacted USM Regular followers of happenings at the University of Southern Mississippi are well aware of the damage done to the institution by the Shelby F. Thames administration (2002-07). Thames’ tenure was characterized by scandals, beginning immediately upon taking office. Those scandals led to unprecedented faculty turnover during the 2002-07 period. That turnover suggests that USM would begin to see unprecedented numbers of tenure awards beginning in 2009, and carrying through to subsequent years. The figure below tracks the number of USM faculty awarded tenure for the 2003-10 period, using data collected from the Mississippi IHL’s May meetings minutes from each year.