ARTICLES CONCERNING
EVALUATION, TENURE AND FINANCIAL REWARDS
(October 3, 2006) They Just Can’t Help Themselves "CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand recently announced the
2006-2007 CoB Named Professorships, and the results are at once predictable and astounding. There are ten
categories of professorships, some of which have been newly added to this group and some of which have been
newly created. These grouping are BAC Professors, Partnership Society Professors, the Morgan Professorship in
Accounting, the McCarty Professorship in MIS, the Kaetsu Professorship in IB, the Draughn Pharmaceutical Sales
Professorship, the Banking Professorships, the Economic Professorship, the Center for Financial Services
Professorship, and the Professors in Practice participants. The recipients are...".
(October 4, 2006) The CoB Admin & “The CoB Mob” A Look at Summer Pay for Teaching, 2006 "This is the first
installment in a new series at USMPRIDE.COM that deals with the CoB Administration’s treatment of the so-called
“CoB Mob.” While it’s clear who is referred to as members of the CoB’s Administration (Doty, Niroomand, Babin,
Becker, Carter, Lewis), it might not be as clear who is being referred to here as a member of the “CoB Mob.” The CoB
Mob is a term created by supporters of the CoB’s current administration to describe those CoB faculty who they (the
CoB Admin supporters) believe oppose the CoB’s current administration. The term first appeared on the USM Forum
– No Quarter Message Board (and/or its predecessor run by the USM chapter of the AAUP). The screens below
provide names of potential members of the so-called CoB Mob as given by the posters “Yentas’ Coffee Clutch” and
“Petruchio.”...".
(October 15, 2006) 31st & Pearl Straight from the 'Hardt "If the past is any indication, Dr. Stephen Bushardt is
probably meeting with new hire Dana Haggard almost daily to convince her that the salary disparities she has heard
about inolving her $78,000 offer today and the $79,750 and $81,000 offers from two years ago that were made to Brian
Gregory and Jennifer Sequeira, respectively, really aren't disparities at all...".