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(February 27, 2007) Special Report A Jury of Your Peers? An Investigative Series on the CoB Advisory Committee’s Role in the Grievance Process This report represents Part 6 of our look at the CoB Advisory Committee’s role in the Faculty Grievance process. This subject continues to generate interest among readers given that at least five (5) grievances involving various CoB faculty remain active at the present time. One of the members of the CoB's Advisory Committee is associate professor of tourism management, Zaher Hallab. In terms of academic credentials, sources indicate that Hallab is about at the median among CoB faculty. However, Hallab received the largest raise package (outside of CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand) in the CoB over the 2004 and 2006 merit raise processes. Hallab's raises for these two years are shown below:

(February 28, 2007) Special Report Want to See the Latest Info on Tenure Requirements? An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials A number of recent reports available at usmpride.com have commented on the wide array of answers given by CoB junior faculty to the AACSB Peer Review Team (Feb 2007) regarding the CoB's (unwritten) requirements for tenure. Now, with a recent upload on this website, we have some additional information as to what constitutes tenure in the CoB, at least with regard to research credentials.

(March 6, 2007) 31st & Pearl You Got "Hallabed"? Join the Crowd The recent revelation that the largest raise package in the CoB over the most recent raise cycles (2004 and 2006) went to tourism management associate professor Zaher Hallab came as a surprise to many in the CoB. If you weren.t one of those in the .Who.s he?. crowd, you were almost certainly part of the .What did he do?. line. We.ve already addressed the first question. As for the second, it.s more than likely safe to say .About the same as you.. Of course, this answer contradicts the $16,000 worth of merit raises Hallab sopped up over the 2004 and 2006 raise cycles.

(March 16, 2007) Oops! . . . He’s Doing it Again EFIB Chairman George Carter to Offer Preferential Summer Salaries Again in 2007 About eight months ago, usmnews.net broke the story of preferential summer salaries (2006) in the CoB. The primary beneficiaries of these summer 2006 teaching deals were economics professors Edward Nissan, who taught 2 courses for full-time summer pay, and Charles Sawyer, who taught 1 course for half-time summer pay. These and other teaching deals that were concocted during the summer of 2006 are described in more detail in an in