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(February 13, 2007) Po-ta-to, Po-tot-to "'Deferred success' or an 'F'? A 'sixth year visit' or 'probation'? Does the label matter? It is not a good day, a happy day, or a successful day for the College of Business (CoB) at Southern Miss. Just how bad or less bad it is depends on the letter from AACSB. It was not a good first step after the visit to refuse to send an email to the CoB faculty and staff about what was said before the team departed. Nothing good can come from that, but some harm and ill will can be avoided by including people in the news�".

(February 9, 2007) Waxing Semantic "If the CoB administration's reaction to the thoughts of the AACSB Peer Review team is any indication, then it's game over. CoB administrators are now falling back on semantics, saying that the CoB can't be on probation because the term "probation" does not appear in the AACSB guidelines and documents�".

(February 8, 2007) "Sixth Year Review" = "Probation" Read the title of this column. Now read it again. No matter how hard CoB Dean Harold Doty or his sycophants argue against it, the statement is true: "Sixth Year Review" = "Probation"...".

(February 15, 2007) AACSB Probation: How Doty Got Distracted "Harold Doty arrived at USM in 2003. Since then, Doty has had 3 ½ years to get a grip on the CoB - formerly the CBED - and to prepare it for the biggest hurdle in his deanship, the AACSB Maintenance of Accreditation visit that just concluded�".

(February 7, 2007) What Would SACS Advise? "Now that the word is out about the CoB's AACSB probation, we can't help but wonder what SACS would advise the CoB to do over the next year. That's a hard one to call, but we are pretty sure what SACS would say don't do. That is: Do not start/implement anything new over the next (probationary) year. Of course, like all of the other good advice that Dean Doty routinely ignores, this would go unheeded also...".

(February 7, 2007) Thames, Grimes Dupe d "Over the past three years, CoB Dean Harold Doty has played the 'AACSB card' with USM's central administration every chance he could. He forced the economic development department out of the CoB because, as he described it, their continued presence jeopardized AACSB accreditation. Doty also withheld work on AACSB Standard #5 as a way of 'leveraging' more funds from Grimes and Thames for the AACSB effort. Now we learn that about all Doty leveraged from that sorry act was a warm bowl of AACSB probation...".