ARTICLES CONCERNING
EVALUATION, TENURE AND FINANCIAL REWARDS
(August 8, 2006) 31st & Pearl Musings on the 2006 CoB Raises "We've looked at the list several times now, and we still don't
understand why the debacle now known as the CoB 2006 Raise Process took two days to complete. If you're just making stuff
up, it ought to go a little faster than that...".
(August 8, 2006) 31st & Pearl The Time Has Come "If you looked close enough, you have noticed that Associate Dean
Niroomand's 2006 "merit" raise of $9,282 comes in at just under 7 percent of his pre-raise salary. In fact, it just squeezes under
the bar set by the State of Mississippi by a measly six one-hundreths of one percentage point (approximately). Anything
beyond that and Doty et al. would have had to provide written justification for Niroomand's raise. Sound to you a little like
Pileum's $249,999.99 contract with USM? It should...".
(August 8, 2006) 2006 CoB Merit Raise Process: Correlating Raises with Characteristics "A recent usmpride.com document
expressed each individual faculty's dollar merit raise as a percentage of his previous salary, giving us each faculty's
percentage merit raise. Based on other documents posed at usmpride.com, we calculated the correlations below:...".
(August 9, 2006) The USM College of Business “‘Equity Raise’ of 2006” Post-Op Report "... As with our Pre-Op report on Doty’s
plan for “gender equity,” this Post-Op analysis is limited by the absence of useful teaching, research and service data to
support a claim of gender bias (in either direction). With the information we have at our disposal, however, our first report
suggested that there was no gender equity issue in the CoB before the 2006 merit raise process. This Post-Op analysis suggests
that Doty, in a stated aim to boost the salaries of CoB females, may be on his way toward creating one."
(August 10, 2006) SEDONA Files "... In this issue we re-visit the SEDONA records of CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand,
examining aspects of a few areas of his academic record. We begin with some of his 'academic experience.'...".