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(October 16, 2006) USMPRIDE’s New “Your Value-to-Niroomand’s Value” Calculator "CoB faculty often wonder just how Dean Harold Doty and his administrative team view the value of their service to the College and to the University. To assist CoB faculty in quantifying their value to the CoB, USMPRIDE has developed the new “Your Value-to-Niroomand’s Value” Calculator. This device uses your 2006 merit raise – which represents the most recent opportunity that CoB administration has had to assess the value of everyone’s contributions – and CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand’s 2006 merit raise (as inputs). Because Niroomand’s $9,282 merit raise for 2006 was the CoB’s largest, it seemed like a natural baseline for assessing all other non-administrative track faculty values (to the CoB). Thus, the new calculator computes your individual 2006 merit raise as a percentage of Niroomand’s 2006 merit raise. The results are presented alphabetically in Table 1 below:...".

(October 18, 2006) CoBscam? A Look at Questionable Teaching Schedules in the College of Business "An interesting angle on some teaching scheduling practices in the CoB is taking shape, based on some documentation obtained by USMPRIDE.COM. Investigators have copies of the EFIB teaching schedules for fall 2006 and spring 2007. Those schedules indicate that certain EFIB faculty are receiving overload pay for teaching “out-of-load” courses. Let’s start with the fall 2006 schedule...".

(November 3, 2006) CoBscam? A Look at Questionable Teaching Schedules in the College of Business "An interesting angle on some teaching scheduling practices in the CoB is taking shape, based on some documentation obtained by USMPRIDE.COM. Investigators have copies of the EFIB teaching schedules for fall 2006 and spring 2007. Those schedules indicate that certain EFIB faculty are receiving overload pay for teaching “out-of-load” courses. Let’s start with the fall 2006 schedule...".

(November 21, 2006) CoBscam? A Look at Associate Dean Niroomand’s Journal of Current Research in Global Business Operation Researchers at USMPRIDE.COM have obtained financial records on CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand’s Journal of Current Research in Global Business operation. Numerous reports available at USMPRIDE.COM have investigated the publishing practices of Niroomand and economics professor Edward Nissan. In doing so, the issue of the CoB’s sponsorship of the JCRGB, a journal of dubious quality, has arisen. As the documents presented below in this report indicate, concerns over Niroomand’s use of the JCRGB to garner large raises in the CoB’s evaluation system appear to have been well founded.

(November 22, 2006) The CoB’s 2006 Summer Teaching Deals Explained A previous report at usmpride.com indicated that a few CoB faculty received teaching releases for the summer 2006 semester (see heading below).

(November 10, 2006) Special Report George Carter’s Leisurely Stroll down Tenure Lane An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials This report revisits the earlier installment in the Special Report series that uncovered the 12-year tenure-track plan that was provided to current EFIB Chair George Carter between 1979 and 1996 (see below).