SAMI DAKHLIA, FORMER ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
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(December 12, 2008) Special Report Wittmann’s Nest Getting Bigger An Investigative Report on CoB Faculty Research Credentials The recent Special Report entitled Dakhlia & Co. Rank MKT Journals pointed out that associate professor of economics Sami Dakhlia and the 2007-08 Journal Ranking Committee (JRC) moved 11 marketing journals that were formerly in the B-level column (in the mid-1990s journal classifications) to the A-level column of the CoB’s new 2008 journal classifications.
(December 22, 2008) Top Stories of 2008 by Duane Cobb 5. New Journal Rankings -- Within the first few months of 2008, the CoB's 2007-08 Journal Ranking Committee, which was chaired by untenured assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia, presented its new (2008) journal classifications to the CoB. These classifications were then passed by a vote of CoB faculty, and have since become the official list for evaluating the research efforts of CoB faculty.
(March 22, 2009) Our Most Talented Colleagues Unique A-Level Hits of Current & Former CoB Faculty – Economics In May of 2007, untenured assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia, a first-year CoB faculty who, to use EFIB chairman George Carter's term, had just been "canned" by the University of Alabama, took the floor at the end of the CoB's spring 2007 convocation. He then proceeded to blast the USMNEWS.net editor and various CoB faculty for speaking out against the CoB's administration in a way Dakhlia felt encouraged his (Dakhlia's) most talented colleagues to leave USM. Of course, Dakhlia wasn't speaking out in support of those CoB faculty who had been abused by CoB administrators, as management professor Sharon Topping had spoken for only minutes before Dakhlia was handed the rostrum by then-interim CoB dean Alvin Williams.
(April 6, 2009) Cheaper by This Dozen Twelve Current CoB Faculty USM Dean Lance Nail Could Stand to Lose by Duane Cobb Picking up where my recent ranking of CoB faculty that CoB dean Lance Nail can’t afford to lose (Behind the 8) left off, this report ranks the top 12 current CoB faculty that dean Lance Nail can’t afford to have hang on for an extended period. That is, without these 12 CoB faculty, the CoB’s ranking amongst Gulf South business schools would certainly rise higher. Since this list is 50% longer than the last, let’s get right to it:
(May 19, 2009) GH Chatter So much of the above chatter entry is about FIN. Speaking of FIN (again), chatter has it that the new department of finance, real estate and legal studies (FINRELS) is facing a dire budget situation, thanks largely to some serious mismanagement by soon-to-be-former EFIB chairman, George Carter. It seems that Carter was funding Sami Dakhlia's "EFIB Fridays" seminar series out of general (E & G) funds, not from monies coming from the USM Foundation, as expected. Now, budgets for things like phones are bone dry, and as a result, new FINRELS chairman Francis Laatsch will soon be terminating phone service (and perhaps other essentials) from that quarter. CoBers should thank Carter and Dakhlia when (more like if) they are encountered in the JAG hallways over the coming days.