financialissues6

(August 21, 2006) Passport Series: IHL Board Records Tracking Potential International Travel in the College of Business since 2002 "This installment of Passport Series presents IHL-approvals of international travel from January of 2003 through January of 2006. All of the information you see below was taken from various IHL Board Meeting minutes available on the IHL's website...".

(August 22, 2006) Special Report Management is Golden An Investigation into Administration Support in the CoB "This special report examines the resource commitment that Dean Doty is making to improve the level of scholarship in the Management unit in the College of Business...".

(August 23, 2006) Special Report What Happened to the $ in the 2003 Fin Line? An Investigation into Salaries in the CoB "This special report examines uncovered documents relating to the 2003 hiring in Finance. Investigators at usmpride.com have gained access to several documents related to the hiring that year, including the Permission to Advertise form, which contains some interesting details. That form is inserted below:...".

(August 24, 2006) The Costs of Sponsorsing Operation Pretense Following USM's Money "This report tracks the cost to USM of producing James R. Crockett's book, Operation Pretense. The exhibits you see below generally speak for themselves. As the data continue to come into usmpride.com, more analysis and commentary will be added. This is a work in progress. In the meantime, feel free to peruse the information supplied below...".

(August 30, 2006) Doty on the Move An Investigative Series on CoB Travel "This "Special Report" continues a multi-part examination of Employee Travel Vouchers in USM's College of Business. In this report, we examine some of the travel expenses of CoB Dean Harold Doty (also Professor of Management) over the period from July 2004 through June of 2005...".

(August 30, 2006) Special Report James Crockett's Travel: Back to the Beach An Investigative Series on CoB Travel "This "Special Report" continues a multi-part examination of Employee Travel Vouchers in USM's College of Business. In this report, we examine the interesting details of James Crockett's June 2005 trip to Destin for the MSCPA Annual Convention...".

(August 4, 2006) Special Report Some of James Crockett's Parting Gifts An Investigative Series on the use of Tax Dollars "This "Special Report" examines what appears to have been a "Gold Watch Sabbatical" awarded to Jim Crockett at the end of his academic career at USM. We also examine some of the details of a Conference trip to Oxford funded by the CoB in late April of 2005�".

(September 4, 2006) Special Report Project Outreach A Look at Consulting Associated with Niroomand's Grant Work "This "Special Report" presents some newly uncovered details associated with Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand's "Project Outreach" grant efforts. Each item in Table I below relates to "consulting" work that was requisitioned either in the April of 2002 or February of 2003�".