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(May 27, 2008) 2007-2008 CoB Awards Another academic year draws to a close, it is time to look back and salute some of the CoB faculty members would will not otherwise get their just rewards. The following is a list of the major awards:

(June 2, 2008) CoB Flashback: January 18, 2007 January 18, 2007, was a sad day for the USM family. As Rachel Leifer of The Hattiesburg American reported on January 19, 2007, the USM community awoke on January 18, 2007, to the sad news that then-Dean of USM's College of Arts & Letters, Elliott Pood, had died of a massive heart attack the previous evening, January 17, 2007. As Leifer strolled the USM campus on January 18, 2007, looking for words of condolence and/or wisdom from USM faculty, staff and students, she ran across Harold Doty, then-Dean of USM's College of Business. Doty must have seemed to Leifer like the perfect person to talk to; after all Doty and Pood both came to USM at the same time (2003) and both had been serving as colleagues/Deans since then.

(June 5, 2008) CoB News, 4 June 2008 Doty Gone Wild? According to a USMNEWS.NET source, CoB management professor Harold Doty recently e-mailed CoB students enrolled in a section of MGT 400 and informed the students that the particular section of MGT 400 had been "canceled by the university." Doty's message was cryptic at best, and offered no explanation to the students nor any instructions on what to do about their course schedules.

(June 5, 2008) CoB Flashback: June 28, 2004 June 28, 2004, was a significant day in the life of the CoB. On that day former Director of Development for the CoB, Frank Pickering, walked into the Forrest County Circuit Court and fired a wrongful termination of employment lawsuit against USM et al. Pickering alleged that he had been wrongfully terminated on or about October 2003, and his lawsuit mentioned former CBA and CoB deans William Gunther and Harold Doty, respectively.

(June 18, 2008) Perks for Buds VII Centers The CoB must be in the top tier of business schools for the number of “centers” that are meaningless. Under ousted dean Doty, he wanted to virtually litter the CoB with them. The idea would be they would all be – somehow – revenue generators. This is where it got fuzzy, and for the most part, ceased to exist as a concept. The true reason for centers or bureaus is to benefit the director or directors of the centers, and to hide salaries, benefits, work loads, cash flows, and anything else that is not desired to be seen in the light of day.personal finance issues into the County’s regular education curriculum.