ARTICLES CONCERNING
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI'S
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
(August 17, 2009) 31st & Pearl CoB Economists Now Threatening to Leave at Year's End If a recent anonymous post
to Economics Job Market Rumors by a CoB economist is accurate, then the CoB economists' response to being
terminated by year's end is to state that they aren't returning to USM after this year. That post, which is inserted
below, is believed by some to have come from associate professor Sami Dakhlia, who came to the CoB in 2006
after being "canned" by the University of Alabama.
(August 18, 2009) The ECO Terminal A Newsletter Relating to the Elimination of Economics Programs Did the
INSIDE HIGHER ED Article Work? CoB economists George Carter and Mark Klinedinst were interviewed by
INSIDE HIGHER ED's Jack Stripling for Stripling's 14-August-09 article entitled "Cruel Irony." Many followers of
developments in USM's CoB saw the interview as an attempt by the two to disparage CoB dean Lance Nail and the
USM administration for deciding to eliminate the CoB's economics major and 9 tenured/tenure-track economists.
Did that effort work? No, at least as not as indicated by some of the early comments to that online news article.
These are inserted below:
(August 18, 2009) CoB Economists Boiling Over by Duane Cobb The level of anger coming from the CoB's
economists is reaching new heights with every day passing day. Since being informed last week that their
programs, and employment lines, are to be cut by USM, members of this group have been posting anonymously to
various Internet message boards.