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(February 19, 2008) Breaking News Henthorne Leaves CoB to Lead Tourism Department at UNLV HATTIESBURG – Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that Interim Chair of MGT & MKT and Chair of Tourism Management, Tony Henthorne, will be departing USM at the close of 2007-08 in order to take on the role of Chair of the Tourism & Convention Department at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Not only does UNLV reside in one of the world’s premier tourism destinations, Henthorne’s future academic home is part of the larger William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration at UNLV.

(February 19, 2008) Breaking News Osmonbegone! HATTIESBURG – Reports have reached USMNEWS.NET stating that Talai Osmonbekov, an assistant professor of marketing, has resigned from USM’s College of Business. According to sources, Osmonbekov will be joining the marketing department at Northern Arizona University in the fall of 2008.

(February 20, 2008) Breaking News Marketing Faculty Ranks Devastated, Yet Set to Expand Programs LONG BEACH – USM’s College of Business is rapidly becoming the surreal. The recent departure announcements of marketing faculty Tony Henthorne, to UNLV, and Talai Osmonbekov, to Northern Arizona University, have devastated the CoB’s marketing faculty ranks in both scholarly value (reach) and teaching services. The combined journal publications list from Henthorne and Osmonbekov is both long and peppered with quality outlets, from the Journal of Advertising to the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, with others in between. With these departures, the only non-administrative, tenure-track faculty in marketing at the CoB’s Hattiesburg campus are assistant professors William Smith and Michael Wittmann, and neither of these faculty has produced an A-level publication.

(February 21, 2008) Down and Out USMNEWS.NET’s Duane Cobb Rates the 5 Least Impressive Departures Since ‘03 With the 19-Feb-2008 departure announcements from MGT/MKT and TM Chairman, Tony Henthorne, and assistant professor of marketing, Talai Osmonbekov, the number of CoB faculty departures since 2003 gets ever so closer to 50. As such, now seems like as good a time as any to take stock in how badly some of those departed did in their initial moves from the CoB. Here, I present my Top 5 for least impressive initial jumps. You may have your own, which you are free to compare with mine.

(February 25, 2008) All the Right Moves USMNEWS.NET’s Duane Cobb Rates the 5 Most Impressive Departures Since ‘03 With the 19-Feb-2008 departure announcements from MGT/MKT and TM Chairman, Tony Henthorne, and assistant professor of marketing, Talai Osmonbekov, the number of CoB faculty departures since 2003 gets ever so closer to 50. As such, now seems like as good a time as any to take stock in how well those departed did in their initial moves from the CoB. Here, I present my Top 5. You may have your own, which you are free to compare with mine.