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(August 12, 2009) 31st & Pearl The Other Shoe With only 7 tenured and 5 tenure-track faculty being fired as a result of the $8 million (or $7.8 million) in budget cuts now being penciled in at USM, it seems clear that most of the talked-about canning of faculty lies in the $3 million to $4 million in cuts that are yet to come. Assuming there is a mid-year budget cut that will necessitate the additional $3 million, we can expect more academic programs and tenured (tenure-track) faculty to be let go. For the CoB, this might mean elimination of programs and faculty in tourism management and fashion merchandising. For other colleges, we'll simply have to wait and see.

(August 12, 2009) Lyman Disease by Duane Cobb To have USM provost Robert Lyman smiling at the prospect of hacking $8 million out of the institution's budget, as he appeared to be in the 12-Aug-09 article in The Hattiesburg American story entitled "USM prepares for cuts," could one day seriously harm his upward mobility in higher ed.

(August 13, 2009) breaking news . . . CoB Dean Goes on Record Regarding Budget Cuts HATTIESBURG – Just recently the CoB cut the better part of $1.5 million from its operating budget, the result of a process that has been weeks and months in the making, and one in which USM's four other academic deans have been taking part in their respective colleges. Until now, however, it has been the CoAL's Denise von Herrmann who has served as the main spokesperson for the five USM deans. That all changed with The Hattiesburg American's Tim Doherty's 13-August-09 news report entitled "USM budget cuts: All 5 colleges may be hit," wherein CoB dean Lance Nail speaks out in some detail about the CoB's elimination of three economics programs and 9 tenured/tenure-track ECO faculty.

(August 13, 2009) Sharing the Pain? How USM's Budget Cuts Hit its Five Academic Colleges In his 13-August-09 report for The Hattiesburg American entitled "USM budget Cuts: All 5 colleges may be hit," THA reporter Tim Doherty discovered just how much money will be cut by each of the five academic colleges at USM. The data uncovered by Doherty are detailed below in Table 1.

(August 13, 2009) breaking news . . . Remaining CoB Academic Programs to be Spared? HATTIESBURG – According to a recent interview of USM provost Robert Lyman by WDAM-TV, USM's Academic Planning Group has recommended that, if USM's total budget cut rises from the recently-announced $7.5-$8.0 million total to the $11 or $12 million total that is expected by year's end, none of the additional cuts come from the academic side of the institution. The additional $3-$4 million would instead come from areas such as the music department, where there are USM personnel who work with the USM marching band that could be moved off of state E&G lines. Lyman also told WDAM-TV that he is recommending that the USM marching band and the Dixie Darlings dance/spirit team curtail some of their activities, such as attending football games away from Hattiesburg's M.M. Roberts Stadium.