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(March 9, 2007 ) Who should be in the CoB Five Days a week? As five-day teaching schedules are returning to prominence in the CoB – once again progressing by regressing to the CoB past of about 25 years ago – it may be time to explore who is a good candidate for more mandatory face time in the CoB.

(March 30, 2007) Jaw-Dropper on the Horizon What Some CoB Faculty Will Soon Learn About Their Research CredentialsUsmnews.net has just learned that EFIB Chair George Carter has told some faculty in the EFIB that the CoB’s classification and consideration of academic research has undergone a complete overhaul since the CoB’s AACSB Peer Review Team placed the College on Accreditation probation in March of 2007. As a result of the overhaul, the following changes to research classification and consideration will be implemented by the EFIB’s Carter and the rest of the CoB:

(April 3, 2007) Heroes and Storytellers In a recent usmnews.net report, readers were treated to some of Management ProfessorStephen Bushardt’s views on rewards, specifically the Hero/Storyteller Culture. This columnist began thinking about exactly who the Heroes and Storytellers currently are in the CoB and who might be next. Remember that Heroes aren’t really heroes; they are simply the individuals who are the poster children for how the corrupt Bushardtian Establishment wants things done. As a word of note, there is a third category added – Hybrid – that denotes individuals who are used in different situations at different times. What follows is a best guess list for each category.

(May 11, 2007) Life on the EFIB Plantation Will George Carter’s “Your Field Only” Rule for EFIB Research be Applied Equally? The subtitle above is the question of the day in the EFIB, and perhaps only time will reveal the answer, if ever. While we wait, reporters at USMNEWS.NET have compiled several tables in order to draw some preliminary findings about how the EFIB’s untenured faculty look against Carter’s unwritten rule about publishing only in one’s field of expertise. The series of tables below report refereed journal articles since the turn of the century for all untenured tenure-track faculty in the EFIB who are expected to submit tenure dossiers in the CoB. The information on refereed journals articles is taken from each faculty’s Sedona vita (provided to USMNEWS.NET via a Mississippi Open Records Act request).

(May 22, 2007) Just Another “I” in the “EFIB” A Look at John Clark’s Role in Finance Faculty Evaluations The 2007 CoB faculty evaluations process may have come to a close, but reports coming out of the EFIB Department suggest that the 2007 process may represent one of the most egregious cases of sycophancy and misuse of authority over the past two years. Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have pieced together an account the EFIB’s 2007 faculty evaluation process that is both disturbing and shocking. This account is broken down into the sections you see below, concluding with commentary from our own Duane Cobb.