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(April 4, 2008) Breaking News Retread Redux – Lunsford Coming Home (Sort Of) HATTIESBURG – Readers familiar with the USM College of Business’ history will be surprised the learn that the Management Information Systems branch of the School of Accountancy & Information Systems is hiring new faculty once again. After the better part of a decade out of the job market business, the Hattiesburg branch of MIS is attempting to make a hire this year. In addition, the Gulf Coast CoB division has just recently made a hire in MIS. That individual is none other than Dale Lunsford, a former assistant professor of MIS in USM’s College of Business (Hattiesburg), and now an associate professor of MIS at High Point University.

(April 16, 2008) Special Report “No Job for the Faint Hearted” An Examination of the Costs of the CoB’s Recent Faculty Losses Regular readers of USMNEWS.NET will recall reports of the mass exodus of CoB faculty that occurred in the weeks and months following the February 2007 AACSB Maintenance of Accreditation visit made by the CoB’s AACSB Peer Review Team.

(May 13, 2008) Lost & Found by Duane Cobb Without a doubt, the CoB's faculty turnover rate since former CoB Dean Harold Doty's arrival in 2003 has risen to historically high levels. However, some units have been adversely affected much more so than others. In some cases, units have completely turned over once, if not more than once. In all of these cases one can compare what has been lost to what is now found. That is, the lost faculty in some units can be aggregated into a unit-sized group and compared to what remains for that unit in USM's CoB of today.

(May 19, 2008) Breaking News Is Glascoff Bolting for Spring Hill College? HATTIESBURG – Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have been told that CoB visiting professor of marketing, David Glascoff, is leaving USM and will be joining the faculty at Spring Hill College (Mobile, AL) in the fall of 2008. Glascoff's departure for SHC would mark the second such departure for the CoB in just the past few months. As reported previously, long-time CoB management professor, Stephen Bushardt, will be joining the SHC faculty in the fall of 2008.

(June 29, 2008) CoB Human Resources Update June, 2008 The 2007-08 academic year has been a particularly devastating one on the human resources front in the CoB. All four of its departments suffered faculty losses, though some suffered more than others. Below is a summary of much of what has occurred over the past 9 months or so:

(July 3, 2008) CoB News, 3 July 2008 Why was Rambo Driven to the Outskirts of Town? While working on The CoB's Brain Drain, 2003-Present,USMNEWS.NET reporters ran across some interesting information about former CoB accountant, Robert Rambo, who is now at Providence College. It seems that Rambo had published two A-level journal articles, using a combination of the CoB's new journal rankings and Louisiana Tech University's journal classifications, just before being informed by CoB faculty/administrators that he had failed to perform up to expectations at USM.