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(February 2, 2008) Special Report Holes in the Core An Investigative Report on CoB Faculty Credentials A previous installment in the Special Report series entitled "Transient Independent Contractors . . ." pointed out that the CoB's faculty ranks are increasingly becoming concentrated with untenured faculty and instructors, adjuncts, and visitors. This installment in the Special Report series examines how the CoB students are being adversely affected, through staffing decisions involving the CoB core curriculum, by the unprecedented faculty turnover since 2003, the year that former CoB Dean Harold Doty arrived in Hattiesburg from Syracuse University.

(April 9, 2008) GH Chatter USM’s Study Abroad Programs staffers are advertising the CoB’s Study Abroad Programs as opportunities for CoB students to interact with the CoB’s “best professors” on a more personal level and in an international setting. Given the prominent roles played in the Study Abroad Programs by CoB faculty such as Sami Dakhlia, David Duhon, Mark Klinedinst, and Farhang Niroomand, this ad campaign is drawing snickers in Greene Hall’s corridors and beyond. It sounds to some as if Niroomand designed the campaign mantra it himself.

(April 14, 2008) Special Report Script Padding An Investigative Report on the CoB’s New Healthcare Marketing Degree The new USMNEWS.NET series on former CoB Dean Harold Doty’s bypassing of faculty governance in the CoB (during his 2003-07 administration) is a popular one. In one installment of that series – The Doty Sidestep, Part 3 – readers are treated to the story of the development of the CoB’s new Healthcare Marketing degree program. That program is being celebrated on 15-April-08, as assistant professor of marketing Michael Wittmann, also the Max Draughn Healthcare Marketing Professor, is hosting the annual Healthcare Marketing Industry Day event in the lobby of the Joseph Greene Hall. With all of the buzz in recent days about this program and the Draughn Professorship, USMNEWS.NET reporters have taken another look at the particulars of the program.

(April 24, 2008) USM's College of Business: A Certified Retirement Community A number of reports here at USMNEWS.NET have focused on various forms of service dereliction by CoB administrators and the faculty they protect. A good example of the former is EFIB Chair George Carter's Council of Chairs dereliction, while an example of the latter is economics professor William Gunther's Faculty Senate dereliction.This report takes a fresh look at the types of service dereliction covered in past reports by examining CoB faculty attendance at recent Academic Council and Graduate Council meetings.