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(May 23, 2007) COB Confidential Staffers at USMNEWS recently received a parcel containing several items of interest (along with written instructions). This installment of “COB Confidential” examines a portion of that parcel that is relevant to our mission of uncovering the kinds of things that CoB administrators treat as confidential. If you are a regular reader of USMNEWS you are aware that our editor, Marc DePree, is constantly prodding CoB administrators to admit that faculty vitae are not confidential. Usually the prodding is to no avail. This issue of “COB Confidential” relates to that very subject.

(May 30, 2007) Back to School CoB Teaching Quality According to pickaprof.com The recent report entitled .Best and Worst: . . .. has received a good deal of interest from readers of USMNEWS.NET. This report follows up on that report by looking at the teaching quality of CoB faculty based on the data available at www.pickaprof.com.

(May 30, 2007) Rock, Paper, Scissors -- Rock! How Hiring (and Firing) in the EFIB has Gone off of the Rails Recently, a USMNEWS.NET feature item indicated that a report on hiring in the EFIB was forthcoming. That report has since morphed into a series, out of which this is Part II. We pick up where we concluded issue I, discussing the chaotic human resources situation on the economics side of the EFIB since EFIB Chair George Carter (see below) re-assumed the reigns of the department in August of 2005.

(May 30, 2007) The Run Continues Dana and Stephen Haggard Departing for Missouri State University Assistant professor of management Dan Haggard and assistant professor of finance Stephen Haggard are departing the USM College of Business. The Haggards, who have been in the CoB for only one year, are heading to Missouri State University. Their departure continues a run of CoB faculty departures, now up to seven (7), that began shortly after the departure in early February of 2007 of the CoB's AACSB Peer Review Team.

(May 30, 2007) Hallabed All Over What the SEDONA Data Say About Zaher Hallab's 2004 & 2006 Merit Raises In a Mar-07 31st & Pearl installment entitled "You Got 'Hallabed'? Join the Crowd," a columnist at USMNEWS.NET pointed out a number of striking facts about the 2004 and 2006 merit raises awarded to current associate professor of tourism management Zaher Hallab. That column, inserted below, indicates that (1) Hallab received about $16,000 in merit raises over just 2 raise cycles (2004 and 2006), (2) Hallab's 2004 and 2006 merit raises increased his USM salary by 24.7 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively, even though the merit raise years in question were 5 percent years, and (3) Hallab's salary has risen, as a result of these two merit raises plus a promotion-to-associate raise, from $44,110 to $63,870 -- a staggering 44.8 percent -- from May-2004 to Aug-2006.