(December 18, 2007) Special Report ECO’s “Backdoor” Comeback An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for
Personal Gain The combination of Franklin Mixon’s recent resignation and the rise in prominence of the research
records of Jon Carr (MGT), Fujun Lai (MIS), and Talai Osmonbekov (MKT) places the CoB’s economics unit at, or near,
the bottom of the CoB’s research credentials ladder. Whether or not George Carter, the EFIB chair, can lead economics
back up that ladder remains to be seen. What is becoming evident, though, is that the economists are putting together a
plan that may get them started up that path. That plan involves use of the 2007-08 journal ranking process, headed by
assistant professor of economics, Sami Dakhlia. Sources tell usmnews.net that Dakhlia is putting together a ranking of
economics journals that will improve the standing of economics relative to the rest of the CoB.
GEORGE C. CARTER, FORMER CHAIRMAN, FORMER DEPARTMENT
OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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(December 24, 2007) CoB News, December 2007 CoB Turf Wars The CoB's recent Distinguished Alumnus Award
dinner, hosted for recipient Bruce Aust, was covered by Hattiesburg's society magazine, Signature. Photos from the
event appeared in Signature's December 2007 issue.
(January 14, 2008) "Woe is ECO" On 2-Jan-08, all of the CoB's faculty and staff were informed that the EFIB's secretary,
Ms. Lola Ingram, had taken ill and would be out of work for 6 to 7 weeks. CoB faculty and staff were made aware of
Ingram's illness via an e-mail to EFIB faculty from EFIB Chair George Carter that was forwarded to "cob-facstaff" by
Interim Dean Alvin Williams' administrative assistant, Ms. Sonia Gaines-Littles.
(January 29, 2009) CoB News, 28 January 2008 Jackson’s Professional Judgment? Carter’s Regression Obsession CoB
faculty got back to campus for Spring semester 2008 to learn that the Undergraduate Programs Committee had
approved a new 1-hour course covering the basics of regression. Back in the early 1990s, the CoB offered a
two-semester sequence in UG statistics – BA 301 and BA 302. Both of these were 3-hour courses, and the second of the
two covered regression analysis, along with other quan
(February 1, 2008) 31st & Pearl Is Williams a Trouble-Maker? It is well-known among CoB old timers that EFIB Chair
George Carter fancied the Dean's seat for himself after Tyrone Black, former Dean of the CBA, stepped down in 1997.
After one year with accountant Roderick Posey as Interim CBA Dean, Carter wore his desire to occupy JGH 211 on his
sleeve. It was not to be, as the CoB turned away from its own in Carter and James Crockett by choosing former
University of Alabama economist, Bill Gunther.