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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 6, 2006) Special Report What’s Going on with Management Salaries? An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Salaries "This Special Report re-examines recent starting salaries in the CoB’s Management unit. In a previous installment in the CoB Administrators in Their Own Words data were presented showing that two recent Mgt hires, Brian Gregory and Jennifer Sequeira, received starting offers of $79,750 and $81,000, respectively, for the beginning of the 2004-2005 academic year...".
(October 10, 2010) The CoB Admin & “The CoB Mob” A Look at the 2006 Merit Raises "This issue visits the 2006 merit raises for the first time in this series. A snapshot of the Top 10 merit raises list is provided below (taken from a separate report at USMPRIDE.COM):..."
(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...".
(October 16, 2006) Special Report Is Michael Wittmann Earning More Than $100,000? An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Salaries "This Special Report re-visits the 2006-07 starting salaries data obtained by usmpride.com through an open records act request. The data obtained from USM’s Human Resource Department is presented below:...".