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(June 12, 2009) Clarkology An apparent UMKC insider tells USMNEWS.net that newly hired University of Missouri – Kansas City finance professor John Clark, currently an associate professor in USM's CoB, will soon join the Bloch School at UMKC with tenure. While this situation is a bit uncustomary in academe, in Clark's case it goes even further – prior sourced reports have indicated that Clark's prior tenure track run at UMKC (late 1990s-2003) was likely headed to a negative conclusion until Clark departed UMKC for the b-school at USM. Having just faced a six year tenure track run in the CoB, Clark received tenure last month (May-09).

(June 28, 2009) Clark's Replacement . . . at UMKC Recent stories about CoB associate professor of finance John Clark becoming a newly hired University of Missouri – Kansas City finance associate professor who will soon join the Bloch School at UMKC with tenure have drawn a lot of interest from USMNEWS.net readers.

(July 6, 2009) Was Clark Slipped in Past the Keeper? Former CoB associate professor of finance John Clark is, as reported here at USMNEWS.net a few weeks ago, headed back to the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Clark has already spent a few years there prior to coming to USM's b-school in 2003. Sourced reports have indicated that his prior tenure-track run at UMKC was likely headed toward a defeat had he (Clark) not pulled out and headed east for Hattiesburg.

(July 24, 2009) USM Financial Situation Dire and Getting Worse With Ed Kemp's 23-July-09 article for The Hattiesburg American entitled "USM prepares for budget cuts," you have to wonder just what now-former CoB associate professor of finance John Clark knows about USM's dire budgetary situation and why he is leaving for the University of Missouri – Kansas City. According to information obtained by Kemp, each USM dean is drafting a plan to cut $2 million from each of the college budgets, a figure that will likely mean termination of not only staff and adjunct faculty, but also tenured professors. Each cut, as explained by Kemp, is part of an effort to cut $10-$12 million from USM's overall budget. (As reported earlier, only $100,000 of these cuts will be coming from athletics.) Clark's affiliations with the USM Foundation may have put him on the "need to know earlier, rather than later" list vis-à-vis the USM financial crisis reported by Kemp.