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(December 28, 2007) 2007 Christmas Gifts Alvin Williams The CoB's Interim Dean recently accepted a position in marketing at the University of South Alabama. This news was broken by reporters at USMNEWS.NET the day after Christmas. Sources say Williams was hoping to keep this news under cover for as long as possible. On the positive side, Williams received word from AACSB headquarters indicating that the CoB had been fully accredited by the organization. Even this good news, however, was tempered by the surprise departure of EFIB economist Franklin Mixon.

(December 28, 2007) Dear USM Pride, I hear that Alvin Williams is headed to the University of South Alabama in Mobile. If he does commute there, then turnabout will be fair play. William Gunther is taking Mississippi taxpayers for a ride, as you all have explained in detail, by living outside of Mobile and earning $120K from Mississippi. I'm sure Williams will earn a similar amount. If he brings it back to Hattiesburg, then Alabama taxpayers will be taken for the same ride.

(January 10, 2008) Special Report "Critical" Condition An Investigative Report on the CoB's Plans for Online Education The recent proclamation by Interim CoB Dean, Alvin Williams, that the CoB's need to move its courses and programs online is "critical" has been met with skepticism by many of the CoB's faculty. Sources tell usmnews.net that it is not known whether Williams believes his own proclamation, or whether he was simply parroting the desires of new USM President, Martha Saunders. What is known, however, is that the Ole Miss central administration recently sacked its business Dean for bucking the OM business faculty's decision not to support online courses and programs for OM business students. The decision to remove OM's dean resulted in former CoB faculty, Ken Cyree, ascending to the position of Interim Dean of OM's business college.

(February 1, 2008) CoB News, 1 February 2008 Is Williams Reacting to USMNEWS.NET? With every report by USMNEWS.NET describing just how little work the CoB’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research Director, William Gunther, is able to get away with doing for so much compensation ($125,000/9-mos), it seems that the CoB’s answer, if not Gunther’s, is to engage in a public relations campaign that attempts to tell the opposite story. The latest example of that comes from Interim CoB Dean, Alvin Williams, via an e-mail message to CoB faculty and staff that lauds the work that Gunther’s BBER is doing for the CoB and Mississippi.

(February 11, 2008) GH Chatter Brace yourselves! The story that the CoB's 2007-08 search for a new Dean has been a complete bust is now circulating. That likely means another year, another Interim. With current Interim Dean Alvin Williams jaunting off to join the faculty at the University of South Alabama for 2008-09, it won't be him. That leaves the usual suspects, with stories now listing Stephen Bushardt, George Carter, Harold Doty, and Farhang Niroomand as possibilities for the temporary post.