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(September 21, 2007) Green, Marvasti, Neither, or Both? Exploring Various Promotion Scenarios in USM’s College of Business, 2007-08 News reports at USMNEWS.NET have indicated that associate professor of economics, Akbar Marvasti, has submitted his dossier for promotion to professor. Marvasti has been an associate professor at USM for one year so far, and by the end of the 2007-08 P&T process at USM, he will have been an associate professor at USM for two full years. Another associate professor of economics at USM, Trellis Green, has held that title since 1997, or for more than 10 years. Green has not heretofore submitted his application for promotion to full professor, though it is not known whether he will or not before the departmental deadline for 2007-08 consideration.

(September 21, 2007) CoB P&T Controversies, 2007-08 Recent reports have expressed the belief of some in the CoB that the 2007-08 promotion and tenure season will be a controversial one. That belief was supported last week when it was announced that new CoB faculty Sami Dakhlia (assistant professor of economics) and Akbar Marvasti (associate professor of economics) were applying for promotions this year. While USMNEWS.NET reporters continue to follow these and others who are expected to submit their dossiers for P&T next month, there are already at least three controversial P&T "issues" that will carry over into the 2007-08 P&T process. This report re-examines them.

(September 26, 2007) Breaking News Bad News on the P&T Jailbreak Train LONG BEACH – Reporters with USMNEWS.NET have just learned that the Draughn Assistant Professor of Healthcare Marketing, Michael Wittmann, is submitting a 2007-08 application to become the Draughn Associate Professor of Healthcare Marketing. Wittmann, who some sources believe is one of the highest paid assistant professors in marketing in the South, stands to earn a 9-month taxpayer-supported salary of just under $100,000 per year with the salary increment that comes with promotion in the CoB.

(October 1, 2007) 31st & Pearl Gloomy Economic Forecast has Silver Lining For her 28 September 2007 article in The Hattiesburg American entitled "Economist: State to see slow growth for next 15 months" Shelia Byrd interviewed Mississippi's State Economist Phil Pepper, who says that Mississippi can expect slow growth over the next 15 months, through December of 2008.

(October 15, 2007) GH Chatter From all of the chatter surrounding the 2007-08 P&T season, the proceedings in the CAC are going to be exciting. One or more CAC members in each department have withheld voting at the departmental level in order to join the fray at the College (CAC) level.