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(June 14, 2007) Will D. Harold Doty’s Work Hit the Timbers Nursery? Stephen Bushardt’s SEDONA Vita Says So Something really interesting turned up in the “Intellectual Contributions” section of management professor Stephen Bushardt’s SEDONA vita. A piece of that section, the part relevant to this report, is shown below:

(June 25, 2007) 31st & Pearl Harold's Rock It has been more than two months since Harold Doty resigned his post as Dean of USM's College of Business. I fully expected him to have started his own business college somewhere across town by now, but I guess that's not in the cards. Searching for a new job as Dean elsewhere is in the cards, as evidenced by Doty's frantic play to land the top position in the b-school at Clemson University. Though Doty may say he was among the "finalists" for the position, we would argue that even attempting to land the job was a big mistake for the young lad.

(June 25, 2007) Do the Hattiesburg-Area Realtors Know the CoB’s Real Estate Program is Dead? Former CoB Dean Harold Doty may have refused to cancel the CoB’s real estate major, as he told a crowd of faculty and administrators at the University of South Florida during his Sept-05 job interview in Tampa, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t terminate all of the program’s faculty, which he did during the spring of 2007. In doing so, Doty effectively killed the CoB’s real estate program, which sources state was tops in the State of Mississippi at the time the axe fell.

(June 27, 2007) 31st & Pearl Deans & Sabbaticals The recent report that Interim Dean Alvin Williams has been awarded sabbatical leave for one part of the 2007-08 academic year questions whether or not Deans can take sabbaticals.

(July 2, 2007) CoB News, 2 July 2007 We have a number of interesting news items to report from the CoB as we hit the middle of the summer of 2007. A few of these are detailed below.

(July 6, 2007) Doty Theories . . . and More by Duane Cobb Discussions about former CoB Dean D. Harold Doty’s chances of landing a job as dean elsewhere often place people in two separate camps. There are those who believe his bad behavior even before the AACSB visit in Feb-07 doomed his prospects for moving up, or on, in the academic world.

(July 20, 2007) Breaking News EFIB Search Committee Favors Ms. Doty HATTIESBURG – An e-mail written by EFIB Chairman George Carter (to EFIB faculty) regarding the EFIB’s search for a new Director of the CoB’s Center for Economics Education has been provided to news staff at USMNEWS.NET. The contents of that e-mail are interesting, and deserve attention. That e-mail, sent out on 20-July-2007, is inserted below: