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(January 10, 2007) The Perfect Hire for the CoB In any organization, hiring is a difficult process. Those making decisions want to achieve certain goals. Sometimes, organizations like colleges and universities (and their subordinate units) want to increase their productivity, raise their profile, or achieve recognition in some manner (quality of education, etc.).

(January 24, 2007) Special Report Was the 19-Jan-2007 AOL Meeting Really "MANDATORY"? An Investigation into Possible Service Dereliction in the CoB On the morning of 19-January-2007, CoB faculty received the following e-mail message from Dean Duane Harold Doty's office:

(January 30, 2007) 31st & Pearl George Carter's 2007 SEDONA File It's easy to imagine that EFIB Chairman George Carter will have some difficulty when it comes time to fill out his SEDONA file for the spring 2007 annual evaluation process. He will no doubt need to enlist the assistance of Ms. Lola Ingram, the EFIB secretary. We can imagine the questions he'll have for her. They might go something like:

(February 1, 2007) usmpride.com News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEVELOPING STORY January 31, 2007 HATTIESBURG --- Investigators at usmpride.com News just received an intriguing bit of information (from a first-time source) regarding the fall 2006 T&P/3rd Yr Rev meeting in the Department of MgtMkt. From what we are told, that T&P/3rd Yr Rev meeting included a number of what were described as "irregularities."

(February 12, 2007) Special Report In Case You Missed It An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials Several days before the AACSB Peer Review team arrived in Mississippi to inspect the College of Business at USM, a staff member in CoB Dean Harold Doty's office sent an e-mail to all CoB faculty asking them to consider bringing samples of recent research (e.g., offprints, journal issues, books, etc.) to the Dean's office for inclusion in the CoB research display case on the second floor of Joseph Greene Hall.

(February 14, 2007) Special Report It's not Only how Many, it's also how Much Time An Investigation into CoB Faculty Tenure and Promotion Practices Recent reports have spotlighted the widespread confusion among CoB junior faculty when it comes to the research requirements for tenure and promotion. When the AACSB Peer Review team met with untenured CoB faculty, they asked "how many?" publications were required to get tenure in USM's business college. The answers reportedly were: 6, 7, and 3. At that point, people stopped guessing. The mean from this set of answers is 5.3, and the standard deviation is 2.1 -- that's enough to produce a coefficient of variation equal to 39.6%. Amazing!