(March 25, 2011) Dear usmnews.net: I think it is well known that the recent budget crisis cost Kuo Lane Chen her associate professorship in the College of Business. Piecing together everything else that happened, it appears that Scott Magruder was also let go. Erin Drake-Bridges is not on the Fall 2011 teaching schedule, nor is her photo with the rest of the fashion merchandising faculty at usm.edu. Chang Hsieh is also not on the Fall 2011 teaching schedule for MBA, MGT, or MIS, at least with regard to Hattiesburg. If he is out, that makes three from the old MIS area, with Chen and Magruder. Matthew Hood in finance and Stan Clark in accounting are leaving for other schools. This could be another uptick in turnover that we are seeing.

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(April 5, 2011) The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 5-April-2011 One, Two, Three, Four . . . Eighty Six
Eighty six faculty have departed the CoB since former CoB dean, Harold Doty, was hired by USM back in 2003.

(June 8, 2011) . . . breaking news . . . Malik Leaving the CoB HATTIESBURG – CoB associate professor of finance, Farooq Malik, will be leaving USM before the start of the upcoming 2011-12 academic year. Malik’s departure comes on the heels of the recent announcement that another CoB finance faculty, Matthew Hood, will be joining the finance faculty at Texas State University at the beginning of 2011-12.

(June 8, 2011) Faculty Turnover in the CoB, 2003-Present (update)

(June 19, 2011) . . . breaking news . . . Hsieh Leaving USM’s Business College HATTIESBURG – After a 20-25 year tenure in USM’s business college, MIS professor Chang-Tseh Hsieh is departing. Hsieh, who recently was named one of only a handful of University Distinguished Professors (UDP) at USM, becomes the third CoB faculty to announce his departure in recent weeks, following finance faculty Matthew Hood and Farooq Malik.