ALVIN WILLIAMS, FORMER PROFESSOR OF
MANAGEMENT AND INTERIM DEAN
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(September 20, 2007) Special Report Hated It! A Look at the Service Dereliction of the CoB’s Interim Dean Reporters
at usmnews.net have received tips indicating that Interim COB Dean Alvin Williams is not living up to his service
responsibilities. Table 1 below presents data on the CoB’s Graduate Council representatives’ presence/absence at
Graduate Council meetings over the past two academic years (i.e., 2005-06 and 2006-07). This information comes
from the Grad Council’s website -- http://www.usm.edu/graduatestudies/graduatecouncil.php.
(September 25, 2007) Breaking News SEDONA's Fault? HATTIESBURG – Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have just
received a 25-Sept-07 e-mail sent to CoB Chairs by the CoB's Interim Dean, Alvin Williams. Chairs later forwarded
the e-mail to faculty in the College. That e-mail concerns the CoB's AACSB Maintenance of Accreditation efforts, and
is pasted below:
(October 1, 2007) Breaking News Saunders Calls on Williams to Investigate "Doty Incident" HATTIESBURG --
Earlier today USMNEWS.NET reported that USM Police were dispatched to the CoB's home, Joseph Greene Hall, to
report on an altercation involving former CoB Dean Harold Doty. Doty, a co-defendant in a federal court legal
proceeding, reportedly threatened, verbally, another CoB faculty, and someone who served as a witness for the
plaintiff in that very same federal court process. Now, reporters at USMNEWS.NET have just been informed that
USM President Martha Saunders, another of the co-defendants in that federal case, has asked Interim CoB Dean
Alvin Williams, yet a third member of the group of co-defendants in the federal proceeding, to investigate the
episode involving Doty, their fellow co-defendant.
(October 1, 2007) Bring 'Em All Home More USM Grads Look to be Rejoining CoB as Faculty As sources relayed to
USMNEWS.NET several weeks ago, Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams invited those students in attendance at the
Spring 2007 Awards Banquet to go off, get a PhD, and come back to USM and "help us out." Williams' comment
seemed to be a signal that USM's CoB was looking to populate itself with former Golden Eagles. After all, the CoB
had recently hired Elizabeth LaFleur (professor of marketing), Michael Wittmann (Draughn assistant professor of
marketing), Evelyn Green (instructor of tourism management), Amber Rivers (visiting instructor of marketing), and
Charles Broadus (visiting instructor of marketing) -- all of whom hold a degree or degrees from USM.
(October 8, 2007) CoB Power Line A Look at Who Holds the Reigns of Power in the CoB by Duane Cobb The CoB has
devolved into such an academic banana republic of sorts that it is probably useful to take stock, from time to time, of
just who holds the most political power there. Without question political power in the CoB waxes and wanes, just as
it does in any of the typical unstable, tin pot hot spots around the globe. That's what updates are for.