(February 10, 2008) CoB News, 11 February 2008 Is George Here to Stay? With Janis May's 7-Feb-08 press release entitled "Southern Miss Professors Take on Editorship of International Tourism Journal," it looks like visiting assistant professorof tourism management, Babu George, may have found a permanent home in USM's College of Business. May's presser, inserted below, indicates that George will hold the "Managing Editor" title for the Journal of Tourism, a periodical that will be co-published by USM's CoB and Garhwal University (India).
BABU GEORGE, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF CASINO, HOSPITALITY,
TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(October 6, 2008) Is Babu George on Tenure Track? A number of reports here at USMNEWS.net have made it clear that outgoing interim CoB dean Alvin Williams and/or tourism management chair Tony Henthorne engaged in a number of untoward activities in the waning days (in the summer of 2008) of their USM careers. As time goes by, more and more of what appear to be examples of those are coming to light. One of these is the possible reclassification of visiting assistant professor of tourism management Babu George, a friend and associate of Henthorne, to what appears to be a tenure track position within the CoB.
(October 16, 2008) Still Going? A Look at New Journal Publications in the CoB There is little argument with the notion that much of the CoB's former research talent departed since former CoB dean Harold Doty took the reins of the organization back in July of 2003. At this point, with the arrival of new CoB dean Lance Nail, the CoB is barely hanging on when it comes to the research front. One problem Nail seems to be running into now is that many of the CoB's faculty vacancies -- and there have been many in the past few years -- were filled by the outgoing administration of former interim CoB dean Alvin Williams. As a number of reports here at USMNEWS.net have indicated, some of these late hires under Williams were questionable at best.