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(March 26, 2008) Special Report AT&T Award Stays in ACC An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain The CoB’s 2008 AT&T Outstanding Faculty Award was just recently awarded to accounting professor, Charles Jordan. Jordan’s 2008 victory follows the SAIS’, and Accounting’s, 2007 victory, when the Award went to accounting professor and former SAIS Director, Rod Posey. What’s interesting about these selections is that each of these two CoB faculty has been mired in one controversy or another over the past several months.
(May 26, 2008) Perks for Buds This new series will highlight undeserved benefits given to CoB faculty members by administrators in the College. Needless to say, given the many things disclosed on this site, this series could run a very long time.The new proposed MBA program changes the MBA 600 course again. For the time being we will omit a discussion of why the Graduate Programs Committee seemed so determined to change the MBA program a short time ahead of the College getting a new dean. The obvious answer is not progress, but the usual shenanigans of trying to get something in place that cannot be immediately changed by a new dean. MBA 600 was known as the “ethics course” in the MBA program for years. When originally implemented, Dr. Don Robin, an ethics scholar, taught the course. It was usually not the students favorite course (for many reasons), but they were exposed to a lot of material and probably learned from the course. When Dr. Robin retired and departed for Wake Forest University, George Carter was put into the course.
(May 26, 2008) It’s Goodbye Time Again The summer semester is here again at USM. The first summer session collects all imminent retirees for one last boost to the retirement income. Most of those almost retirees who are teaching are frequent names on the summer teaching roster, such as Mike Vest and Marvin Albin. Tony Henthorne and Alvin Williams taught their last classes in the spring semester and are currently administrating their way into the sunset. One unusual summer name is Stephen Bushardt.
(May 31, 2008) Perks for Buds Part II For a long time, first term summer classes were “reserved” for the British Studies gang. This allowed them to double dip by receiving their full summer pay for teaching here, then getting the compensation for British Studies (flights, room, per diem, and a stipend) as well in the same time period as the USM summer term.
(May 31, 2008) Perks for Buds Part III For what seems like generations, Ed Nissan has had only first summer term classes (four and one-half weeks). These classes were typically assigned to the British Studies (BS) gang (see Part II).
(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.