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(March 2, 2008) Breaking News "Member of Protected Group," Francis Daniel, to Exit -- LONG BEACH --The CoB's Department of Management and Marketing continues to take a pounding on the staffing front. Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that assistant professor of management, Francis Daniel, has submitted his resignation from USM, effective at the end of the 2007-08 academic year. Daniel's departure represents the CoB's sixth consecutive departure from the MGT & MKT department, and follows the recent news that Michael Vest, Stephen Bushardt, Talai Osmonbekov, and Tony Henthorne are all leaving the CoB at the end of the 2007-08 academic year. In addition to these, assistant professor of management, Jon Carr, will depart before the end of 2008.

(March 4, 2008) Special Report ECO Census An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Turnover As the weeks go by the CoB’s faculty turnover problem appears to get worse and worse. More and more of the CoB’s most productive faculty are departing for greener pastures (e.g., Missouri, Washington State, Providence, UNLV, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Kansas State) as CoB administrators continue to rule the organization in a plantation-style manner.

(March 12, 2008) CoB News, 7 March 2008 What’s Left in Management and Marketing Readers of USMNEWS.NET have requested that our reporters compile a list of current full-time, tenure-track faculty in the Hattiesburg division of the management and marketing units who will be returning to the CoB to complete another academic year of service in 2008-09. Below, we do so, with color-coded fonts to indicate rank/seniority.

(March 13, 2008) Special Report Attention . . . Please An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Turnover While reports that Interim CoB Dean, Alvin Williams, is riding herd of some of the CoB’s lazier faculty, such as economics professor William Gunther, are encouraging to the CoB’s various constituencies, other evidence cries out that Williams’ attention span and administrative abilities are limited. Such evidence can be found with the CoB’s recent faculty turnover woes, and its efforts to respond to those woes. An example of such evidence is found in Table 1 below, which lists (by unit) all of the tenure-track faculty currently in the CoB (2007-08) who will be returning to complete another academic year in the college during 2008-09.

(March 19, 2008) GH Chatter Many of the CoB's current upperclassmen no longer recognize the organization they entered two or three years ago. More and more of them are now having to contact professors who are no longer affiliated with USM's CoB in order to secure recommendation letters for future employment and/or educational pursuits.

(April 2, 2008) Breaking News “Like a Sweaty Sock” HATTIESBURG – On 2 April 2008, CoB faculty and staff received an e-mail from CoB Development Officer, Emile Dieth. In that e-mail, which is inserted below, Dieth informed the CoB that “[e]ffective Friday, April 18, 2008, [he is] resigning [his] position as Development Officer for the College of Business at Southern Miss.”