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(November 6, 2006) Special Report Doctors Beyond Borders An Investigation into CoB Faculty Residency Data This report responds to a number of requests from usmpride.com readers for a look at CoB faculty who maintain home bases outside of the State of Mississippi. Previous installments in the Special Report series have examined EFIB Chair George Carter’s provision of teaching schedules that allows various EFIB faculty (e.g., Bill Gunther) to maintain living arrangements in neighboring states.

(April 29, 2007) Marvin Albin Nobody in the accounting group personifies the sorry nature of the group better than Marvin Albin. It appears that the last article authored by Albin was the one that Jim Crockett double-counted to give Albin raises in consecutive periods --- back in the early to mid 1990’s --- which means he cannot possibly attain AQ status. To make matters worse, Albin reportedly let his CPA license lapse, taking away any hope of earning PQ status.

(May 24, 2007) Money, Money, Money, Money Consulting and Paid Service in USM’s College of Business This report examines the consulting and paid service that faculty in the CoB are performing, at least according their own SEDONA files (as of May 2007). As you will see below, some of the CoB’s least research-active faculty are engaging in significant amounts of consulting and paid service, all of which enhances their (in some cases bloated) USM salaries. At the bottom of each consulting/paid service bio below, we provide salary data for 2006-07 along with a projected salary for 2007-08. Enjoy.

(June 1, 2007) Sedona's Secret Marvin Albin’s SEDONA 2007 Service Records A recent check of associate professor of accounting Marvin Albin’s spring 2007 SEDONA vita revealed the following list of activities classified as “Service to the University”:

(June 6, 2007) 31st & Pearl Academic Fraud Abounds in the CoB Recent articles regarding the Accounting faculty at USM have highlighted a decades-old issue: Academic Fraud. In fact, issues related to Academic Fraud have been one of the key points in usmnews.net's (and, previously, usmpride.com's) investigative reports over the past year. Sami Dakhlia, Harold Doty, and others may claim that usmnews.net's reports are "lies," "mischaracterizations," or "misinformation," but such claims only underscore the lack of honesty with which these individuals operate.

(May 10, 2007) May 10, 2007 usmnews.net Reporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEVELOPING STORY HATTIESBURG – Almost a decade after the Marvin Albin “double counting” scandal that rocked the then-CBA – a scandal that dogged both the William G. Gunther administration (from 1998-2003) as well as much of D. Harold Doty’s tenure as CoB Dean – Albin is once again in the forefront of events in USM’s College of Business.