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(June 20, 2008) GH Chatter CoB faculty have been talking about the so-called "resignations" of former CoB Dean Harold Doty, and Doty's Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand, since the day they occurred (9-April-07). The subject came up again recently, when accounting instructor Patty Munn was asked about it by legal counsel during a deposition in a United States District Court case.

(June 23, 2008) Doty's Darkest Days Part I The first part of 2007 was the final Act of former dean Harold Doty's administration of USM's College of Business. These were Doty's darkest days. The CoB's AACSB efforts over the 1998-2007 period resulted in failure during the first few days of February 2007. CoB faculty were exiting the CoB in what appears to be record numbers. Faculty grievances regarding administrative malfeasance in the CoB were mounting, and staff members were filing out of the college at almost the same pace as faculty. And on 9-April-07, Doty would himself file out of the CoB’s dean suite, resigning, along with his associate dean, Farhang Niroomand, under a cloud of rumors and suspicion.

(June 23, 2008) Doty's Darkest Days Part II Grimes was clearly concerned about USM's business school. Other than a quick e-mail query to perhaps gauge the interest of the CoB's AACSB Peer Review Team leader (for accounting) Ed Arrington in the SAIS Directorship, Doty appeared to be doing very little, if anything, to address Grimes' concerns. Doty was, however, incessantly sending bizarre e-mails to USM officials such as Grims and Becky Woodrick, USM's EEO officer. One of these was sent by Doty to Grimes on 2-April-07, copying Woodrick. It contained the bizarre subject line: "Potential bias and racism in college." This is shown in the insert below.

(June 23, 2008) Doty's Darkest Days Part III In the e-mail above, Willis makes note of the .concern. raised by Doty in Doty's 5-April-07 e-mail to Grimes. However, Willis also tells Grimes that any action on Doty.s latest concern about the CoB will come only after "we get through Monday's event". By Monday, Willis refers to Monday, 9-April-07. This is the day Doty "resigned". By"we" Willis certainly means himself and Grimes (and possibly others). These are the individuals charged with academic affairs and human resources issues at USM. By the combined term "Monday's event," what else could Willis be referring to other than Doty's resignation? Nothing, really.

(July 1, 2008 ) Perks for Buds VIII Former CoB Deans Former deans littering the halls are a problem for any college, but it is especially acute in the CoB. Not only are there too many of them, but also they do far too little for their extravagant salaries. Mississippi taxpayers should be outraged at footing the bill for the way over $100,000 salaries, especially when they realize they are teaching only 2 classes a semester; that translates to over $30,000 a class. If the “formers” brought any “added value” to the classroom that would be one thing, but that does not seem to be the situation here.