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(October 15, 2008) It’s Getting Ridiculous A Look at the CoB’s New Professor of Practice In a trip down proverbial memory lane, reporters at USMNEWS.net recently re-examined Jan May’s 9-Oct-06 presser entitled “Business Students to Hear from 30-Year Veteran of Corporate World.” In this particular press release, May, the CoB’s Public Relations Director, described a then-upcoming event wherein Michael J. Gade (M.B.A.), a founding partner and consultant with the Challance Group LLP, would be speaking to CoB students about “what it takes to climb the corporate ladder.” Gade’s 12-Oct-06 talk was a part of the CoB’s Executives on Campus Lecture Series, and Gade’s talk was entitled “Succeeding in Today’s Business World.”

(October 14, 2008) Professionalism Dean Lance Nail said at his faculty meeting that “the College of Business is open for business.” The specific reference was aimed at departments not shutting their doors between 12:00 and 1:00 for lunch; lunches should be staggered and staff and administrators should cover the offices so they are open at least 8:00 to 5:00. That is, for the most part, being done.

(October 15, 2008) More Lipstick, Same Pig Dedicated readers will remember some of the cosmetic changes (lipstick) put on the College of Business (the “pig” in question); these have included vanities in the bathrooms in JAG (when it was JGH) and new paper towel dispensers, tile in the ancient elevator, and painting everything that was not mobile under the Shelby Thames regime. Now the JAG is receiving more lipstick: the worn carpet in the first floor by the bathrooms, elevator and seating area has been removed and is supposed to be stripped and polished to match the rest of the industrial floor tile in the JAG. Won’t that look say “top 100 business school”?

(October 17, 2008) Editorial We know from experience--which has been reported on usmnews.com since its inception--that university administrators ignore the rules when it suits them, and enforce them for ulterior motives. See, It’s a Violation, today’s opinion piece from a contributor and a report from our archives.

(October 31, 2008) “Ask not what the CoB can do for you – ask what you can do for the CoB” FINANCE This report examines the contribution to the CoB’s bottom line of each of the CoB’s finance faculty. The data used for doing so are (1) each faculty’s tuition contribution via his or her fall 2008 SCH production, and (2) each faculty’s fall 2008 salary. These data appear in Table 1 below.

(December 4, 2008) Special Report Personal Service . . . Unparalleled An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain While engaging in a public relations campaign for the CoB's forthcoming reorganization, new CoB dean Lance Nail recently released data on the number of majors in each of the CoB's 10 units. Combined with unit-level data on the number of full-time faculty above the rank of instructor which are available throughout the pages of USMNEWS.net, reporters are able to calculate unit-level statistics on the number of CoB majors per faculty.1 These figures, some of which are quite alarming, are shown below in Table 1.