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(August 24, 2007) Special Report P&T Policies Proposal Codifies "The Zantow Rule" An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials The Breaking News piece on the CoB's proposed new P&T policies shows that the CoB's Management Team has actually codified what some in the CoB refer to as "The Zantow Rule." As reported numerous times by usmnews.net, associate professor of management Kenneth Zantow failed 3rd Year Review during the 2003-04 academic year.

(August 28, 2007) 31st & Pearl Codification of "Zantow Rule" Puts USM in Legal Jeopardy According to the proposed T&P policies circulated via e-mail throughout the CoB by Interim Dean Alvin Williams, "Under extenuating circumstances, the Dean of the College of Business may choose to extend the [third-year] review for one additional year, at which time a positive or negative decision must be rendered." That's interesting. The USM Faculty Handbook (9.7.1 and 9.7.2) says something quite different by stating [emphasis added] that third-year reviews "must be conducted for all non-tenured faculty members during their third year of employment as full-]time faculty members," and that the renewal or non-renewal of employment contracts after the third-year review comes "at the discretion of the President . . ." So, once again, the CoB will be voting to codify a provision that is both made from whole cloth and, as we can all expect, will be used inconsistently.

(August 29, 2007) "General Guidelines for Research" in P&T Proposal Appear Contradictory and Meaningless by Duane Cobb On 23-Aug-07, Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams circulated (via e-mail) a draft of the CoB's proposed new Promotion and Tenure policies. In that e-mail Williams informed CoB faculty that the College's Management Team and College Advisory Council had both already approved the proposal, and that CoB faculty would be allowed to vote on it at the 31-Aug-07 fall faculty meeting. Among the many fine details in the CoB's Management Team-approved P&T Proposal is the following section, which appears to contain several contradictory and meaningless phrases and thoughts:

(September 11, 2007) 31st & Pearl Who Knows What? So, in response to the CoB's AACSB Peer Review Team's spring 2007 request for CoB faculty to specify the requirements for promotion and tenure in USM's College of Business, CoB faculty voted on 31-Aug-07 to adopt the proposed P&T policies that were drafted anonymously during the summer of 2007. Upon approval, Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams informed new fashion merchandising hires Erin Drake and Gallayanee Yaoyuneyong that they would be receiving copies of those freshly adopted policies for mounting on their office walls.

(September 17, 2007) Breaking News Williams Reveals the 2007-08 CoB Professorships HATTIESBURG -- Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have just learned that Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams has released the names of the recipients of the 2007-08 Named Professorships in USM's College of Business. The list of Business Advisory Council Professors includes Brigitte Burgess (Assoc Prof, FM), Charles Jordan (Prof, ACC), Fujun Lai (Assist Prof, MIS), Beth LaFleur (Prof, MKT), Farhang Niroomand (Prof, ECO), and Talai Osmonbekov (Assist Prof, MKT).