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(March 29, 2007) Special Report Down that Road Again An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain CoB faculty and staff were recently greeted by an e-mail from Janis May, the CoB’s Public Relations Manager, announcing that former SAIS Director and Morgan Professor of Accounting James Crockett is holding a book signing to promote his recent release, Hands in the Till – Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi. May’s e-mail is shown below:

(April 30, 2007) Special Report Across the Pond, Yet Again An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain Sometimes it's hard to imagine that there is a better chance of running across economics professor Edward Nissan inside of Joseph Greene Hall than there is of finding him somewhere in England. Investigators at usmnews.net have once again found evidence that Nissan may have missed classes while across "the Pond" in England. The screen below provides preliminary details about a conference programme entitled "Structural Reform and the Transformation of Organisations and Businesses," held at Homerton College in Cambridge, from 3-Sept through 6-Sept of 2003.

(June 5, 2007) Waste and mismanagement at colleges and universities A "national survey . . . conducted by Public Agenda and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education,". . . reported that "[a] growing proportion of Americans believe that a college education is essential to succeeding in the workplace . . . "The new survey found that people were generally positive toward higher education, with about two-thirds of respondents saying that colleges teach students what they need to know. But the public is voicing more skepticism about colleges and their operations, especially as their prices rise, the report's authors said.

(July 18, 2007) Special Report Where’s the PBRE Money? An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal GainThe Annual MAC All-Star Tennis Tournament 2007 is set for 20-July-2007 in Jackson, Mississippi. The North-South format features high school tennis stars from across the Mississippi, all of whom will converge on the Parham Bridges Tennis Center. The Parham Bridges Tennis Center (see webpage banner below). Parham Bridges.

(July 26, 2007) Carter comes Clean, on a Few Things An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain On 25-July-2007, EFIB Chairman released the following e-mail to EFIB faculty and a number of other CoB officials:

(August 2, 2007) An Interesting Thought for 2007-2008 If I were a CoB junior in 2007-2008, I would take the following courses and very possibly have the following instructors:

(August 6, 2007) Opting for Elsewhere How CoB Administrators are Making Junior College an Easy Choice for Mississippi’s High School Graduates This report details a scheduling shift in USM’s College of Business, brought on largely by how poorly handled the tumultuous turnover (ushered in by former CoB Dean Harold Doty’s administration of the college) has been. As faculty depart, and they have been doing so in droves since 2003, they are increasingly replaced with un- and underqualified candidates, some of which are chosen from candidate pools with as few as two (2) individuals.