GEORGE C. CARTER, FORMER CHAIRMAN, FORMER DEPARTMENT
OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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(October 4, 2006) Letter to President Shelby F. Thames re George Carter conducting Business using USM facilities
(October 6, 2006) A Novel Approach to Improve Learning in BA 301/303 "As has been reported here at
USMPRIDE.COM, Accreditation Team Chair George Carter believes that there are learning deficiencies in business
statistics courses, so he proposed that the CoB begin to use Minitab in its business statistics courses (i.e., BA 301/303).
Of course, long-time faculty in the CoB know that Minitab has been part of the CoB’s statistics offerings for quite a
while. There is nothing new about using Minitab as part of instruction in BA 301/303...".
(October 6, 2006) Silence = Concurrence "On September 19, 2006, George Carter manipulated the USM Faculty
Handbook and violated the spirit of faculty governance to effect a change in EFIB’s governance structure. Carter
shirked his duties as EFIB chair to politic and buy support for his plans. It was clear that some of the EFIB faculty who
are loyal to Carter had been privy to the fact that Carter was planning an unpublicized re-vote. It was also clear that
groundwork had been laid to coerce or to give certain individuals incentive to vote in a certain way. Farhang
Niroomand (who had missed the first EFIB governance vote) carried two proxy votes in hand (belonging to Weihua Shi
and Farooq Malik, USMGC faculty), despite the fact that none of the communication from Carter to the department as
a whole indicated that a vote was to be taken. Bill Gunther, who has attended approximately one faculty meeting of
any kind since being fired as CoB Dean by Shelby Thames in January 2003, even chose this particular occasion to
show up...".
(October 9, 2006) usmpride.com News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEVELOPING STORY October 9, 2006 HATTIESBURG ---
"EFIB Chair George Carter has struck once again, dealing economics professor Franklin Mixon a 5-day per week,
2-location, 3-prep teaching load for spring semester 2007. Sources tell usmpride.com News that Carter’s move is
another attempt to retaliate against departmental dissent, this time lashing out at Mixon for challenging Carter’s
attempt to subvert faculty governance on 19 September 2006...".
(October 5, 2006) Is George Carter The Saboteur? "CoB Dean Harold Doty concluded the fall 2006 CoB Faculty
Meeting by informing faculty that an unnamed individual or individuals were attempting to sabotage the College's
2007 AACSB Reaffirmation efforts. Doty stated that AACSB officials had been notified of the sabotage efforts...".