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(January 13, 2009) Has Ed Lost That Lovin’ Feeling? Ed Nissan was present for the start of classes this semester. It is a wonder that was not picked up by news services. Dedicated readers know (and newer readers can discover in the archives) that old Ed has been M.I.A. at the start of virtually all semesters for years. George Carter, Ed’s erstwhile typist and future former Chair, would cover for Ed’s disappearance by handing out the syllabi and perhaps teaching a class or three for Ed.

(January 29, 2009) CoB News, 29 January 2009 Integrity Policy Not Boilerplate, Says The Chronicle According to USMNEWS.net sources, Thomas Bartlett’s 29-Jan-09 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “2 Universities’ Plagiarism Policies Look a Lot Alike” only deteriorates even further the arguments made by the Harold Doty/Farhang Niroomand administration of the CoB (2003-07), that a university’s or college’s academic integrity policy (or, for that matter, AACSB documentation) is simply “boilerplate” and open for use by any and all, even “without proper citation.” In his article (shown below), Bartlett describes how officials at Southern Illinois University adopted in 2007 a 139-word plagiarism definition that is nearly identical the definition adopted by Indiana University just two years earlier.

(January 30, 2009) CoB News, 30 January 2009 “Third Tier Thieves,” by 31st & Pearl Columnist Yesterday’s issue of CoB News showed, through Thomas Bartlett’s 28-Jan-09 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “2 Universities’ Plagiarism Policies Look a lot Alike,” just how badly the CoB’s administrators and their sycophants behaved under former CoB dean Harold Doty. This group, including Doty, George Carter, Farhang Niroomand, Laurie Babin and Charles Jordan actively participated in and/or countenanced the copying, without proper citation, of two other universities’ administrative documents – the Syracuse University b-school’s academic integrity policy and the Central Missouri State University b-school’s AACSB definitions.

(February 11, 2009) EFIB Bites Fractured Real Estate The CoB's real estate program, which currently resides in the EFIB, is slated to become (beginning 2009-10) part of FINRELS under dean Lance Nail's IHL-approved reorganization of the CoB. Under current EFIB chairman George Carter's stewardship, sources say that the RE program has been largely devastated. A number of events have transpired that have been detrimental to the program: (1) the loss of assistant professor Sean Salter, (2) the separation of business law from the EFIB, (3) the fracturing of RE instruction, and (4) the failure to foster inter-departmental relationships that could benefit the RE initiative.

(February 18, 2009) The Dotys are Vulnerable . . . . . . . Maybe How Kicking ECO 336 to the Curb may Impact Some CoB Faculty Members Now that the CoB has voted to eliminate the ECO 336 (international economics) requirement in the core curriculum, more than just former CoB economist Charles Sawyer's textbook income will likely be impacted.