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(November 5, 2007) Backtracking on EEOC Issues Examining George Carter's Conflicting E-Mail Messages A recently published Breaking News story explained how EFIB Chair George Carter planned to interrupt the FIN job search process on 6-Nov-07 in order to have EFIB faculty discuss making an offer to one of the three (out of of four) finalists who had visited the CoB by that time (6-Nov). That Breaking News story indicated that Carter's plan resulted in a diminished chance of success for Michael Bond, the fourth candidate, to land one of the two openings in FIN.

(November 6, 2007) 31st & Pearl The Admission Behind Marvasti's P&T Gambit The idea that the CoB's Akbar Marvasti, an associate professor of economics, sought and received an "external letter of review" for his promotion-to-full dossier from Charles Sawyer continues to spark interest among usmnews.net readers. Sawyer, who spent approximately 25 years in USM's College of Business, retired from USM in May of 2007. One of his last acts was to assist EFIB Chair George Carter in the hiring of Marvasti during the spring of 2006.

(November 6, 2007) Special Report How Would You Like Your “A”? A Look at What the Sawyer-Carter P&T Evaluations Say As the 2007-08 P&T season’s dossiers circulate further into the corridors of the CoB, word is spreading about what former EFIB economist, Charles Sawyer, and current EFIB Chair, George Carter, are saying about the research credentials of two of the EFIB’s P&T candidates – Sami Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti. In both sets of evaluations – Sawyer’s “external review” of Marvasti, and Carter’s “independent, professional judgments” of both Dakhlia and Marvasti – the duo of Sawyer and Carter attempt to make the case that most academics in economics never publish in an “A” journal. As such, Sawyer and Carter claim that by having 3 “As” and 2 “As,” respectively, Dakhlia and Marvasti are truly unique characters on the academic landscape, at least among academic economists.

(November 9, 2007) 31st & Pearl Reputation Snatchers The recent Special Report on Akbar Marvasti's decision to recycle an 8 year old study for presentation on "EFIB Fridays" goes a long way, as so many other recent EFIB activities have, toward bringing the EFIB back down to earth. For years various CoBers have touted, to excess, the so-called accomplishments of the EFIB. Given recent reports about tales of Edward Nissan ushering in academic research in the college to stories about Charles Sawyer's abilities to read recommendation letters for unstated content,, the other CoB units are now in position to snatch their own (relative) reputations back.