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(October 3, 2008 ) GH Chatter News that the CoB-GC group is becoming more dysfunctional over time is spreading around Greene Hall (and beyond) a bit. Word is that the “one CoB” theme of the past is further from true now than it ever has been. All of the communiqués on ISI journal rankings coming from the dean’s office have some CoB faculty speculating that the journal rankings developed by Sami Dakhlia’s journal ranking committee in 2007-08 will have little to no importance in annual and T&P evaluations.

(October 21, 2008) CoB News, 21 October 2008 Post Tenure Review, Tenure & the CoB At its October 2008 monthly meeting, the Mississippi IHL Board staff presented data to the Board on the implementation of Post Tenure Review across Mississippi’s eight public universities. According to the information provided, Mississippi employs 1,841 tenured faculty across these eight public universities, and recently Post Tenure Review was triggered for 20 of these individuals (representing 1.1%).

(November 5, 2008) “Ask not what the CoB can do for you – ask what you can do for the CoB” ECONOMICS/INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS This report examines the contribution to the CoB’s bottom line of each of the CoB’s economics/international business faculty. The data used for doing so are (1) each faculty’s tuition contribution via his or her fall 2008 SCH production, and (2) each faculty’s fall 2008 salary. These data appear in Table 1 below.

(November 5, 2008) “Ask not what the CoB can do for you – ask what you can do for the CoB” Fashion Merchandising & Tourism Management This report examines the contribution to the CoB’s bottom line of each of the CoB’s fashion merchandising and tourism management faculty. The data used for doing so are (1) each faculty’s tuition contribution via his or her fall 2008 SCH production, and (2) each faculty’s fall 2008 salary.

(November 6, 2008) “Ask not what the CoB can do for you – ask what you can do for the CoB” Legal Studies This report examines the contribution to the CoB’s bottom line of each of the CoB’s legal studies faculty. The data used for doing so are (1) each faculty’s tuition contribution via his or her fall 2008 SCH production, and (2) each faculty’s fall 2008 salary. These data appear in Table 1 below.

(November 6, 2008) Special Report “Shut Up and Drive!” An Investigative Report on the Use of CoB Faculty With budget freezes and human resource strains at USM only beginning, it seems appropriate to examine which non-administration faculty members at CoB-H are being told by CoB chairs to make the drive to one of the CoB’s Gulf Coast locales for teaching purposes. This report examines data from fall semester 2008, which is shown below in Table 1.