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(August 5, 2007) The Case For the Dakhlia–Marvasti 2007 Merit Raise Gets Worse A USMNEWS.NET reader recently contacted our reporters about one of the analyses in our report “Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?” and offered a very useful suggestion. For readers who are not familiar with this report, it can be found at Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?.

(August 6, 2007) CoB News, 6 August 2007 We have a number of interesting news items to report from the CoB as we approach the start of 2007-08. A few of these are detailed below. 2007 Staff Merit Raises

(August 14, 2007) ECONewbies Institutional Affiliations on the Research of EFIB’s Favorite Sons A number of reports at USMNEWS.NET have examined the 2007 merit raises of Sami Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti, two of EFIB Chair George Carter’s favorite CoB faculty (and two faculty who joined the CoB in mid August 2006). One report compared the combined 2007 merit raises of Dakhlia and Marvasti – which totaled about $17,500 – to the combined total of $8,500 for Franklin Mixon and Edward Nissan.1 What’s striking about that report is that the research over the appraisal period (2004-Present) that was produced by Mixon-Nissan is leaps and bounds beyond what the tandem of Dakhlia and Marvasti submitted to Carter for consideration.

(August 15, 2007) Predictions: The 2007-08 CoB Professorships Fresh off of our spot on pick of Jon Carr to win the 2007 Louis K. Brandt Award, it’s time once again for our annual CoB Professorships predictions. Our success rate in this effort for 2006 was high. We expect the following names to appear when the 2007-08 CoB Professorships are announced:

(August 16, 2007) 2007-08 Already Off to Bad Start Accounting’s Roderick Posey Named Morgan Distinguished Professor The ink on our predictions for the 2007-08 CoB Professorships was barely dry when usmnews.net readers began contacting us to say that one of our predictions had already missed the mark. That one, the SAIS’ Morgan Distinguished Professorship in Accounting, will not go to Stanley Clark or Charles Jordan, as we predicted. Instead, it has already been awarded to accounting professor Roderick Posey. That means we missed the mark, and by a mile.

(August 17, 2007) Breaking News Kenneth Zantow's Controversial Tenure-Track Run Completed JACKSON -- With the approval/release of the June 2007 meeting minutes, Mississippi's Institutions of Higher Learning Board announced earlier this week (13-17 Aug 2007) that the CoB's Kenneth Zantow (shown below) has been awarded tenure.

(August 20, 2007) 1979 A Look Back at the CoB’s AACSB Application of 30 Years Ago “One day Dean Greene put his arm around my shoulder and said, ‘I think it’s time I promoted you . . .’” – Anonymous USMNEWS.NET has obtained a copy of the USM College of Business Administration’s AACSB Accreditation Application of 1979. Many current CoB faculty are comparing the organization today to the one of the Joe Greene era, and this document allows for a serious assessment of where USM’s College of Business stands today. This installment (#8) examines the CBA of 1979’s procedures for promoting faculty. We begin with the following text from pages 59-60 of the 1979 AACSB Application: