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(July 15, 2010) GH Chatter Speaking of CoB administrators, there is some talk about Kenneth Zantow continuing to receive an administrative stipend despite having proven himself incapable of handling the graduate programs directorship. Now he holds the sketchy title of chair of the CoB’s Gulf Coast operations. These days reports are that eyes rolling and heads shaking usually follow from faculty after hearing Zantow’s name mentioned.

(December 9, 2010) The Top 10 CoB Stories of 2010 By Duane Cobb Each year at about this time I provide USMNEWS.net my top ten news items involving USM’s business school for the year. This is Part 2 in that countdown for the top CoB stories of 2010.

5. MBA Program Moved to Coast – Another budget-savings strategy recently adopted by the Martha Saunders administration is one that consolidates all of the CoB’s MBA activities at the CoB-Gulf Coast division in Long Beach. That consolidation puts all of the MBA activities under CoB marketing professor Elizabeth LaFleur. Having LaFleur govern the CoB’s MBA program reminds some of the complete failure that putting that same responsibility on Kenneth Zantow, associate professor of management and LaFleur’s CoB-GC colleague, was during the earlier part of the Lance Nail administration of the CoB. The general consensus among USMNEWS.net sources is that this consolidation to the coast of the MBA program will be a net negative in the end. How bad this will be, though, remains to be seen.