(March 4, 2009) Special Report Sorry Lot An Investigative Report on CoB Attendance on the Council of Chairs Our
earlier Special Report entitled Too Cool for School focused on the administrative service dereliction of EFIB chairman
George Carter. That particular Special Report indicated that Carter attended only 22.2% of the meetings of USM’s
Council of Chairs occurring from 11-Aug-05 to 4-May-06. Combined with tourism management chair Cheri Becker’s
lackluster attendance record of just 66.7%, CoB chairs (Carter and Becker) attended only 44.4% of the 2005-06 CoC
meetings.
GEORGE C. CARTER, FORMER CHAIRMAN, FORMER DEPARTMENT
OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
For more articles and editorials concerning Dr. Carter, please click here.
(March 22, 2009) Our Most Talented Colleagues Unique A-Level Hits of Current & Former CoB Faculty – Economics In
May of 2007, untenured assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia, a first-year CoB faculty who, to use EFIB
chairman George Carter's term, had just been "canned" by the University of Alabama, took the floor at the end of the
CoB's spring 2007 convocation. He then proceeded to blast the USMNEWS.net editor and various CoB faculty for
speaking out against the CoB's administration in a way Dakhlia felt encouraged his (Dakhlia's) most talented
colleagues to leave USM. Of course, Dakhlia wasn't speaking out in support of those CoB faculty who had been abused
by CoB administrators, as management professor Sharon Topping had spoken for only minutes before Dakhlia was
handed the rostrum by then-interim CoB dean Alvin Williams. The faculty Topping referred to were beginning to leave
the CoB as well by spring of 2007. Dakhlia, however, was, according to sources, speaking on behalf of CoBers (and
Dakhlia's friends) like Zaher Hallab (tourism management) and Akbar Marvasti (economics), CoB administrators'
favorites who were either leaving the CoB at that time or expressing a desire to do so.
(April 6, 2009) Cheaper by This Dozen Twelve Current CoB Faculty USM Dean Lance Nail Could Stand to Lose by
Duane Cobb Picking up where my recent ranking of CoB faculty that CoB dean Lance Nail can’t afford to lose
(Behind the 8) left off, this report ranks the top 12 current CoB faculty that dean Lance Nail can’t afford to have hang
on for an extended period. That is, without these 12 CoB faculty, the CoB’s ranking amongst Gulf South business
schools would certainly rise higher. Since this list is 50% longer than the last, let’s get right to it:
(April 15, 2009) LIKE A PHOENIX More on the Fall, and Possible Rise, of Statistics Education in the CoB With much of
the CoB’s statistics education (BA 301 and 303) program in the hands of the incapable John Lambert (IB) and George
Carter (ECO), there is little ambiguity about why CoB students and administrators have been struggling with
“learning-related” issues in stats over the past several years. There are enough reports on this issue here at
USMNEWS.net to warrant a separate page devoted to the subject. Up until now, however, little attention has been
paid to Lambert’s history and role in statistics education in USM’s b-school. This report addresses that hole to some
degree.