ARTICLES CONCERNING
GEORGE C. CARTER, FORMER CHAIRMAN, FORMER DEPARTMENT
OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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(April 30, 2010) GH Chatter The 3rd floor CoB staffers recently put on a nice dessert party for the five retiring economics
professors. Though there was a decent turnout, one of the retiring economists – former EFIB chairman George Carter – failed
to show. Chatter has it that Carter is extremely bitter about the situation facing economics at USM (i.e., having to move to
CoAL, forcing five senior profs to retire, etc.), and he didn’t want to give the Lance Nail administration, including those who
staff it, the satisfaction of having him show up and publicly accept this situation.
(May 23, 2010) Responsibility for Carter’s Bitterness Misplaced A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler Former EFIB chairman
and outgoing CoB/USM economist George Carter is extremely bitter these days. He may have some right to be, given that his
pending 30-June-10 retirement was forced upon him by the Martha Saunders administration. Still, Carter’s bitterness is
largely aimed, sources say, at CoB dean Lance Nail, instead of other, perhaps more appropriate, targets. One of these,
arguably the primary one, is former CoB dean Harold Doty (pictured below).
(May 25, 2010) GH Chatter As for outgoing economists, word also is that George Carter is spreading the bad word about the
CoB’s administration all over the place. Numerous reports have indicated that Carter is seriously bitter about what has
occurred regarding economics since summer of 2009.
(June 30, 2010) 31st & Pearl Standing Alone The new fiscal year is here, meaning that we have turned the calendar to
1-July-2010. This date also marks another turning point for USM’s CoB – the economists have departed. Associate professor
Daniel Monchuk and professor Akbar Marvasti are now part of USM’s College of Arts & Letters. Joining them, at least for a
while, is former CoB associate professor of economics Trellis Green. The other senior economics professors, George Carter,
William Gunther, Mark Klinedinst, and Edward Nissan, have moved into retirement. Whether this is what they wanted is
another question.
(July 7, 2010) GH Chatter Judging by some of the chatter, the b-school faculty are enjoying the absence of economists in
Greene Hall. That is not really surprising. Under George Carter, the economists were more like thorns than feathers in the
CoB’s cap. Speaking of former CoB economists, talk is that Edward Nissan is getting a retirement office over in the English
department’s area of the liberal arts building.
(October 4, 2010) 31st & Pearl One Heckuva Plan It has been about one year since the Martha Saunders administration
agreed to a plan put forth by the USM b-school economics faculty that would allow the unit, which had recently been
eliminated by the Saunders administration, to survive as a smaller group over in USM’s liberal arts college.
