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(May 30, 2007) Dissecting the "Charade" A Look Back at Sami Dakhlia's 4 May 2007 Proclamation One of the lines in Sami Dakhlia's so-called resolution of 4 May 2007 has not escaped the attention of a CoB management professor. That particular line is inserted below, and sources tell USMNEWS.NET that the term "anonymous" implicates a senior finance professor:

(June 10, 2007) 31st & Pearl From the Mouths of Babes On 4 May 2007, Sami Dakhlia took the floor of the CoB's end-of-year faculty meeting and delivered a prepared "resolution" against dissent. That speech was part of what must have been a week's worth of preparation for an event that will probably be remembered more for its orchestration than what was written.

(July 31, 2007) Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball? The most common question CoB faculty have asked, after being informed about the enormous raises awarded (in 2007) to new CoB faculty Sami Dakhlia (assistant professor of economics) and Akbar Marvasti (associate professor of economics), has been: What did they do? The following analysis shows the likely motivation behind such a question.

(August 5, 2007) The Case For the Dakhlia–Marvasti 2007 Merit Raise Gets Worse A USMNEWS.NET reader recently contacted our reporters about one of the analyses in our report “Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?” and offered a very useful suggestion. For readers who are not familiar with this report, it can be found at Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?.

(August 14, 2007) ECONewbies Institutional Affiliations on the Research of EFIB’s Favorite Sons A number of reports at USMNEWS.NET have examined the 2007 merit raises of Sami Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti, two of EFIB Chair George Carter’s favorite CoB faculty (and two faculty who joined the CoB in mid August 2006). One report compared the combined 2007 merit raises of Dakhlia and Marvasti – which totaled about $17,500 – to the combined total of $8,500 for Franklin Mixon and Edward Nissan.

(September 4, 2007) 31st & Pearl CoB's Journal Ranking Process Politicized In last Friday's CoB faculty meeting, interim dean Alvin Williams stated that a new journal ranking was eminent and that the journal ranking committee would begin work at 8 A.M. on Tuesday, September 04, 2007. Should we, observers of the CoB chaos, expect a positive outcome from this newly-discovered dedication to journal ranking? Hardly.

(September 14, 2007) 31st & Pearl Why Such a Difficult Time? We've all heard it, over and over again. Harold Doty telling those assembled at USF in September of 2005: "I have a difficult time using State E&G dollars to supplement faculty salaries." We've heard it so many times that you might even believe it. Well, don't. The record shows there's nothing "difficult" about it -- using State E&G dollars to boost faculty salaries, that is.