ARTICLES CONCERNING
EVALUATION, TENURE AND FINANCIAL REWARDS
EVALUATION, TENURE AND FINANCIAL REWARDS
(November 8, 2007) 31st & Pearl P&T "Recusal Tactic" Diminishes Oversight Apparently no one has stopped to
recognize the fact that the P&T "recusal tactic" that we have read so much about lately only diminishes the
oversight role played by university-wide college advisory councils. The tactic is one wherein members of the CoB's
College Advisory Council recuse themselves from voting on P&T dossiers at the departmental level so that they
retain the option of voting at the CAC level. This is done because of the"one person, one vote" stipulation, though
there is reportedly never any record presented at the CAC level proving one has not already voted at the
department level. The tactic, popularized since 2003, or when the Harold Doty-Farhang Niroomand Administration
of the CoB reigned supreme, is used primarily on "controversial" P&T dossiers, as one might imagine.
Management professor Stephen Bushardt, now Chair of the CoB's CAC, has employed the tactic in the recent past.
Former Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand, now a member of the CAC, is poised to do so this year (2007-08).
(November 9, 2007) Breaking News Bushardt Elected Chair of the CAC HATTIESBURG – USMNEWS.NET
reporters have learned that management professor Stephen Bushardt has been elected as Chair of the College
Advisory Committee in the CoB. The CAC is responsible for making recommendations on P&T dossiers (by voting
on them) to the CoB Dean, among its other duties.Administration of the CoB reigned supreme, is used primarily on
"controversial" P&T dossiers, as one might imagine. Management professor Stephen Bushardt, now Chair of the
CoB's CAC, has employed the tactic in the recent past. Former Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand, now a member
of the CAC, is poised to do so this year (2007-08).
(November 14, 2007) Dear USM News, I know that your readers are probably most interested in the resignation of
Alvin Williams right now, but I wanted to write to let you know that some faculty in the college have been
discussing the dire situation regarding the lack of student progress in managerial statistics. Things have gotten
worse not better since we first got numbers on how poorly our students are performing in statistics. It's time that
the college removes statistics from the economics department and house it with the various disciplines.
(November 19, 2007) How the EFIB's "Quick-Strike Promotion & Raise" Program Works Much has been written
about the EFIB's so-called "Quick-Strike Promotion and Raise" program. It is perhaps best explained by the
following anecdote. According to sources, in his 2007 P&T support letters for Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti, EFIB
Chairman George Carter stated that Dakhlia and Marvasti were hired at lower ranks because the salary lines
lacked the funding necessary to bring them in at more appropriate ranks, such as associate and full professor.
(Carter's pointed his finger at various USM administrators for the employment line shortfall.) Thus, these two new
hires were brought in at lower ranks and put into "the . . . program."