(April 24, 2007) George Carter: CoB Dean Slayer Current EFIB Chair George Carter has served on the
administrative teams of two deans: H. Tyrone Black and D. Harold Doty. Both of these business college
administrations ended ignominiously.
TYRONE BLACK, FORMER DEAN, COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
(May 15, 2007) Who is Running the CoB? Ty Black “resigned” in 1997. Rod Posey was Interim Dean from 1997
to 1998. Bill Gunther was hired in 1998 and was fired in January 2003. Harold Doty was hired in June 2003 and
“resigned” in April 2007. Alvin Williams became Interim Dean in April 2007 and vows to leave that office by
July 2008.
(July 11, 2007) 31st & Pearl Black Knew Then What We Know Now So many CBA faculty thought it completely
silly that, during the Ty Black administration of the college, faculty had to submit actual copies of their
scholarship at annual review time. The running joke was that it was bush league, that reputable schools don't
operate in that way. Well, Black knows people, at least CoB (then CBA) people, as good as or better than most.
Black knew then that co-authors would mix up the citations of their work, as we saw in last year's Sedona
records for Stephen Bushardt, David Duhon and Francis Daniel. Black knew then that the accountants could
appear to be shifty in reporting their accomplishments.
(December 4, 2007) Special Report Dean ME An Examination of CoB Deans’ Merit Raises over the Past 15 Years
The revelation that Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams is working on a contract that is paying him $175,000/year
came as a shock to many readers of USMNEWS.NET. After more than a decade of turning down offers to lead
USM’s College of Business, it seems to many now that Williams’ past decisions were all about money. Given
readers’ response to reports about Williams’ current salary, USMNEWS.NET reporters have searched our
archives and found data (for the past 15 years) on the merit raises that the CoB’s Deans, past and present, have
“awarded themselves.” Some of the results are a bit a surprising.
(March 7, 2008) CoB No Longer a “Magnet School” Through the years, particularly those years under the
direction of former Dean Tyrone Black, USM’s business school was a respectable organization that boasted at
least one (and usually more) notable scholar in each academic unit.