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(October 29, 2008) CoB News, 29 October 2008 Carter’s Reach Below, USMNEWS.net reporters have inserted page 1 of the 10-July-08 meeting Minutes of USM’s Council of Chairs. The purpose of doing this is not to highlight the fact that newly-appointed interim chair of MGT & MKT, David Duhon, missed the meeting, his first as interim chair. No, this section of CoB News, 29 October 2008, focuses on the comments of another CoB administrator, EFIB chairman George Carter.

(November 11, 2008) 31st & Pearl On Carter's Head The recent CoB reorganization developed by new CoB dean Lance Nail was no surprise to many in the CoB. Rumors have been circulating for weeks about such a plan, and the October meeting wherein the details were made public did not really shock anyone in attendance. Given all this time, some had already been thinking about what parts of the new organization might mean for the CoB, and for current CoBers as well. One aspect of the plan -- the merger of economics and information systems into the new Department of Economics and Decision Sciences -- has likely been at the front of the minds of many CoBers who are in the process of working out (in their heads) all of the reorganization's ramifications.

(November 19, 2008) Special Report “Black Tuesday” Epilogue? An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal GainThe following insert was first published by USMNEWS.net as part of CoB News, 29 October 2008. It concerns recent events related to Black Tuesday in the CoB, which is one of the links in the USMNEWS.net Archives. This portion of that prior CoB News installment deserves its own report, and to be housed on the Black Tuesday in the CoB page of the Archives.

(November 19, 2008) Does Anyone Still Stand Up for Him? With what “EFIB Fridays” coordinator Sami Dakhlia referred to as “an inquiry into the science of knowledge” and an “epistemological topic that should be of interest to any researcher,” CoB faculty were invited (via e-mail) to EFIB chairman George Carter’s 14-November-08 presentation of his solo work entitled “How do We Know?” After reading the e-mail invitation sent via CoB Alternative Learning Coordinator Sonia Gaines-Littles, man

(November 24, 2008) GH Chatter The recent USMNEWS.net story about EFIB chairman George Carter's "EFIB Fridays" paper presentation is providing water cooler fodder around the greater CoB. Word is that former TM chair Cheri Becker has a good story about Carter's so-called knowledge of the inner workings of the human body. Carter's "How do We Know?" research presentation is sure to be a topic of conversation in JAG for many years to come.