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(June 23, 2008) Special Report Dakhlia & Co. Rank ACC Journals An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials The work of untenured assistant professor of economics, Sami Dakhlia, the chair of the CoB's journal ranking committee, and company is now complete. Having passed the CoB's new journal rankings weeks ago, the CoB's journal ranking committee has yet to post the new rankings to the CoB's web pages, even though doing so was said by Dakhlia to be an essential part of the process. According to Dakhlia, posting the lists to the Internet would give them the credibility needed to move forward in using them in the CoB's merit raise and T&P processes.

(June 24, 2008) Special Report Home Cooking An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials In her recent U.S. District Court deposition, assistant professor of accounting, Mary Morgan Anderson, had two chances to say how many A-level journal publications she has. On the first occasion she said 7 or 8, and on the second she stated 6 to 8. Now that the CoB has, at the eleventh hour, uploaded CoB faculty (individual) web pages, the veracity of Anderson's statements can be tested.

(July 12, 2008 ) Public Service Announcement, 12-July-2008 If you are considering new employment as a faculty member in USM's College of Business Administration, this PSA could easily be one of the most important notices you read in your professional life. There are enough "bad practices" that routinely occur in USM's CoB to threaten your academic career should you choose employment there. Any one of these could step out and bite you, and at any moment. But, there is a new threat emerging in USM's CoB that should give anyone pause when considering a job offer from there. That threat comes via the potential nefarious use of a new policy being enforced by CoB administrators.

(July 20, 2008 ) Letters to the Editor Dear USM News, I read the warning posed by one of your readers regarding course assignments, research interests, and faculty politics. I would like to add that given the flight of research competent faculty, tenure committees will likely be dominated by senior faculty who have, for a variety of reasons, decided to stay at USM's CoB. New faculty who are on tenure track should be warned that their annual reviews and tenure review could be very problematic unless they play ball with these senior faculty in every committee and faculty vote.

(August 7, 2008) A Taste of How the CoB Works: Journal Classification One of the things USMNEWS.net has done over the past few years is to show just how politics in the CoB shapes just about everything that is done there. There is no better venue for doing that than the CoB's recent effort to classifiy journals across the various business disciplines. Politics affected that 2007-08 process from the jump. First, the CoB was being administered by an interim dean, Alvin Williams. Williams is certainly not known as a top-notch researcher, even by CoB standards. Thus, 2007-08 was not the proper time to re-classify business journals at USM.