GEORGE C. CARTER, FORMER CHAIRMAN, FORMER DEPARTMENT
OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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(January 13, 2009) Has Ed Lost That Lovin’ Feeling? Ed Nissan was present for the start of classes this semester. It is a
wonder that was not picked up by news services. Dedicated readers know (and newer readers can discover in the
archives) that old Ed has been M.I.A. at the start of virtually all semesters for years. George Carter, Ed’s erstwhile typist
and future former Chair, would cover for Ed’s disappearance by handing out the syllabi and perhaps teaching a class
or three for Ed.
(January 29, 2009) CoB News, 29 January 2009 Integrity Policy Not Boilerplate, Says The Chronicle According to
USMNEWS.net sources, Thomas Bartlett’s 29-Jan-09 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “2
Universities’ Plagiarism Policies Look a Lot Alike” only deteriorates even further the arguments made by the Harold
Doty/Farhang Niroomand administration of the CoB (2003-07), that a university’s or college’s academic integrity policy
(or, for that matter, AACSB documentation) is simply “boilerplate” and open for use by any and all, even “without
proper citation.” In his article (shown below), Bartlett describes how officials at Southern Illinois University adopted in
2007 a 139-word plagiarism definition that is nearly identical the definition adopted by Indiana University just two
years earlier.
(January 30, 2009) CoB News, 30 January 2009 “Third Tier Thieves,” by 31st & Pearl Columnist Yesterday’s issue of
CoB News showed, through Thomas Bartlett’s 28-Jan-09 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “2
Universities’ Plagiarism Policies Look a lot Alike,” just how badly the CoB’s administrators and their sycophants
behaved under former CoB dean Harold Doty. This group, including Doty, George Carter, Farhang Niroomand, Laurie
Babin and Charles Jordan actively participated in and/or countenanced the copying, without proper citation, of two
other universities’ administrative documents – the Syracuse University b-school’s academic integrity policy and the
Central Missouri State University b-school’s AACSB definitions.
(February 11, 2009) EFIB Bites Fractured Real Estate The CoB's real estate program, which currently resides in the EFIB,
is slated to become (beginning 2009-10) part of FINRELS under dean Lance Nail's IHL-approved reorganization of the
CoB. Under current EFIB chairman George Carter's stewardship, sources say that the RE program has been largely
devastated. A number of events have transpired that have been detrimental to the program: (1) the loss of assistant
professor Sean Salter, (2) the separation of business law from the EFIB, (3) the fracturing of RE instruction, and (4) the
failure to foster inter-departmental relationships that could benefit the RE initiative.