KUO LANE CHEN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MIS
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(July 2, 2008 ) CoB News, 2 July 2008 KLC Gets the Big "T" USMNEWS.NET reporters have confirmed that the Mississippi IHL voted to award tenure to the CoB's Kuo Lane Chen. The insert below comes from the minutes of the IHL's May 2008 meeting.
(January 8, 2009) The 2008 USMNEWS.net CoB Person of the Year by Duane Cobb 4. Kuo Lane Chen – this associate professor of decision sciences somehow managed to get tenure in 2008 despite the fact that her students and colleagues can only just barely understand a small bit of what she says. Chen first applied for tenure back in 2006-07, only to have her application remanded by then-provost Jay Grimes due to her lack of communication skills. In 2007-08, despite having supposedly completed a required ELI course, and later reportedly facing opposition from Donna Davis (DS professor) and Steven Jackson (SAIS director), Chen’s so-called “7th Year Review” application was supported by then-interim CoB dean Alvin Williams and she was tenured.
(January 12, 2009) A 31st & Pearl Special Series The Chen Standard A Look at How the CoB is Governed by Exceptions, not Rules For years former CoB associate dean Farhang Niroomand proclaimed, often defensively, that the CoB could not afford to lose assistant professor of MIS Kuo Lane Chen. To hear Niroomand tell it, Chen's research prowess was too important to the CoB, and without her MIS would look too weak to support an accreditation run. Giving Niroomand the research prowess argument, for the moment at least, begs the question: why would anyone assert Chen was not an asset to the CoB?
(January 14, 2009) Perks for Buds XXIII Accountants in “Retreat” Dean Nail’s first retreat was, by all accounts, a huge success. Reports say the area with the biggest no-shows for Lance seemed to be Accounting. Bob Smith apparently was still in Atlanta. Where were Stan Clark and Mary Anderson? Aren’t they two of the reputed movers-and-shakers? Was this a message sent to Lance that Lance is not in charge? Perhaps it was continued outrage over Lance’s non-hiring of their favored candidate for director? Maybe it was apathy like it seemingly was for Hsieh, Chen, and Malik. [Editor's note: DePree wasn't invited.] If there are no consequences – and why would you expect any – it is just another example of Perks for Buds.