D. HAROLD DOTY, FORMER DEAN, COLLEGE OF
BUSINESS, CURRENT DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT
TYLER
(May 12, 2009) Bullies & Playgrounds A Brief Scorecard of Doty-Niroomand Envy Former CoB dean Harold Doty
has just become the new dean of the College of Business & Technology at the University of Texas – Tyler. Doty's
former USM associate dean Farhang Niroomand is set to soon become the new dean of the School of Business at
the University of Houston – Victoria. In a very real sense, these two former CoB administrators are embarking on a
professional life in obscurity. Perhaps this puts it mildly, as Victoria and Tyler are not, by any stretch of the
imagination, bastions of any sort in the U.S. higher education world. Still, the two former CoBers, thought by many
to be "eaten up" with envy towards one-another, are heading off to differing circumstances, and the one coming out
on top might not be the one many would guess.
(May 12, 2009) The Wheels on the Bus Musical Chairs Malfeasance in the CoB, 2003-09 The turmoil caused by the
D. Harold Doty administration (2003-07) of USM’s College of Business has been the subject of numerous studies,
reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net and elsewhere. One of the symptoms, if not also one of the causes, of
such turmoil is the degree of turnover among the divisions of Doty’s administrative structure. That turmoil crept
into the interim administration of Alvin Williams (2007-08), and plagued much of the first year of the Lance Nail
administration (2008-09). To see what the turnover looked like, Table 1 lists the names of the individuals who held
chairs, in sequence, from the first year under Doty (2003) through Nail’s first year (2009) at the helm of USM’s
b-school.
(May 15, 2009) The Parent Trap A Brief Scorecard of Doty-Niroomand Envy Though both Doty and Niroomand
clearly made downward moves (spirals?) with regard to the position of their new professional homes relative to
USM, Doty easily wins this round over Niroomand in the Doty-Niroomand envy game. In the grand scheme of
things, the University of Texas – Tyler sits well above the University of Houston – Victoria, as least as far as
USNWR 2009 is concerned.
(May 17, 2009) Making a Point of It A Look at the Distances between Former CoBers and the CoB An unusually
large number of faculty have departed the CoB since 2003. That date is significant in that it represents the
beginning of the Harold Doty administration of USM's b-school. That administration, one that was characterized by
turmoil and failure, would last until 2007. Table 1 below lists those former CoBers who left USM for other academic
environs in 2003 and thereafter. Also included there is the number of miles between these former CoBers and
USM's b-school.
(May 15, 2009) AACSB Soup A Brief Scorecard of Doty-Niroomand Envy At the outset, it looks like "advantage
Doty." UT-T has 829 full-time business students, while UH-V has only 114. That is a difference, in UT-T's favor, of
715 students. UH-V does, however, close the UG student gap with a slightly larger number of part-timers at the UG
level. It is at the graduate level that UH-V makes up most of the rest of the ground, with a full-time enrollment of
176 and a part-time enrollment of 690. AACSB International reports only 177 part-time grad students for UT-T.