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(May 24, 2007) Money, Money, Money, Money Consulting and Paid Service in USM’s College of Business This report examines the consulting and paid service that faculty in the CoB are performing, at least according their own SEDONA files (as of May 2007). As you will see below, some of the CoB’s least research-active faculty are engaging in significant amounts of consulting and paid service, all of which enhances their (in some cases bloated) USM salaries. At the bottom of each consulting/paid service bio below, we provide salary data for 2006-07 along with a projected salary for 2007-08. Enjoy.

(July 3, 2007) 31st & Pearl Dark Shadows It’s no secret that Jack and Jill Hattiesburg have a low opinion of USM faculty. To counter this, many USM faculty have suggested that Jack and Jill shadow a USM professor for a day or more. To this we say: Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. It’s not much of a stretch to suggest that such a shadowing program might give Jack and Jill an even worse perception of USM than they had before. Consider two faculty from EFIB – one on either side.

(September 11, 2007) Strategic Human Resource Management 101 Some Tips on the CoB’s New Friends-to-USM Pipeline At its 31-Aug-07 faculty meeting, the CoB passed the new Promotion & Tenure proposals that were anonymously drafted over the summer of 2007, and later approved by the CoB’s Management Team and Advisory Committee (though prior to 31-Aug-07). Upon passage, Interim Dean Alvin Williams informed newly hired fashion merchandising faculty Erin Drake and Gallayanee Yaoyuneyong that the new proposals would be delivered to them in the near future. In what had come as a surprise to some CoB faculty, Williams introduced Drake and Yaoyuneyong as new tenure-track hires during the “intro of new faculty” portion of the meeting’s agenda, which is why Williams approached them later in the meeting with the newly-minted CoB P&T policies.

(September 28, 2007) John Clark . . . Look Out! $100,000 to $109,999 Reporters at usmnews recently took a look at job ads in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing openings in USM’s College of Business. The following finance ad was found

(October 15, 2007) Breaking News Carter and Clark to Receive $7,500 to $12,000 in Overload Pay HATTIESBURG – Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that economics professor George Carter and associate professor of finance John Clark will both be teaching overload courses during spring 2008. Both of these CoB faculty hold administrative appointments that reduce their teaching loads (from the usual 12 hours) by one course (3 hours). Both are also classified as "Academically Qualified," further reducing their teaching loads (from the usual 12 hours) by one course (3 hours).

(October 22, 2007) Ethics Update, October 2007 There are a number of interesting stories on the ethics front in the CoB to update USMNEWS.NET readers on. Let’s get started.