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(June 24, 2007) How Many CoB Faculty Were Terminated in 2006-07? The release of the May 2007 IHL Board Meeting Minutes supports comments from USMNEWS.NET readers indicating that one or more CoB faculty may not have passed the tenure process during the 2006-07 academic year. According the IHL Board, the following USM faculty received tenure at the end of the 2006-07 academic year:

(September 4, 2007) 31st & Pearl CoB's Journal Ranking Process Politicized In last Friday's CoB faculty meeting, interim dean Alvin Williams stated that a new journal ranking was eminent and that the journal ranking committee would begin work at 8 A.M. on Tuesday, September 04, 2007. Should we, observers of the CoB chaos, expect a positive outcome from this newly-discovered dedication to journal ranking? Hardly.

(September 21, 2007) CoB P&T Controversies, 2007-08 Recent reports have expressed the belief of some in the CoB that the 2007-08 promotion and tenure season will be a controversial one. That belief was supported last week when it was announced that new CoB faculty Sami Dakhlia (assistant professor of economics) and Akbar Marvasti (associate professor of economics) were applying for promotions this year. While USMNEWS.NET reporters continue to follow these and others who are expected to submit their dossiers for P&T next month, there are already at least three controversial P&T "issues" that will carry over into the 2007-08 P&T process. This report re-examines them.

(September 26, 2007) Breaking News Bad News on the P&T Jailbreak Train LONG BEACH – Reporters with USMNEWS.NET have just learned that the Draughn Assistant Professor of Healthcare Marketing, Michael Wittmann, is submitting a 2007-08 application to become the Draughn Associate Professor of Healthcare Marketing. Wittmann, who some sources believe is one of the highest paid assistant professors in marketing in the South, stands to earn a 9-month taxpayer-supported salary of just under $100,000 per year with the salary increment that comes with promotion in the CoB.

(April 27, 2008) 31st & Pearl What is MISsing Here? So, MIS professor, Donna Davis, wants to bring former CoB assistant professor of MIS, Dale Lunsford, now at High Point University, back. I get that. Lunsford has been hired, and will assume a position down at the CoB's Long Beach division. I sort of understand that, though it's still not clear why USM-GC MIS instructor, Fujun Lai, is teaching non-MIS MGT in Hattiesburg. That's a subject for another 31st & Pearl.

(June 16, 2008 ) CoB News, 16 June 2008 Williams Takes it on the Chen A number of reports here at USMNEWS.NET have stated that Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams joined Interim SAIS Director Steve Jackson and various SAIS faculty in opposing the tenure application of assistant professor of MIS Kuo Lane Chen. Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have since learned that Williams was not a part of the opposition group after all. Instead, he went along with other administrators in the decision to tenure Chen, a move some believe came out of Williams' desire to avoid another battle during his last weeks in office.