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(September 22, 2006) Black Tuesday in the CoB: A Call for Sanctions "On August 29, 2006, the Department of Economics, Finance, and International Business (EFIB) held its annual faculty governance vote during the first departmental faculty meeting of the academic year, as is the custom in the department. The first meeting had been planned for August 25, 2006; however, the anticipated length and tone of the college (College of Business (CoB)) faculty meeting made this impractical. The screen shot below represents the actual email sent to departmental faculty by George Carter, chairman of EFIB...".

(September 24, 2006) 31st & Pearl The Carter Doctrine "It's been about 10 years since EFIB chair George Carter's first stint as a department chair ended - and badly. CoB lore has it that Carter was the only USM "official" seated at the surrender table as Trellis Green brought an end to the assault on his own prospects for promotion to associate professor. As the story goes, Carter was pushed to the fore by other administrators when the pursuit of Green had reached its lowest point, and USM conceded defeat...".

(October 9, 2006) usmpride.com News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEVELOPING STORY October 9, 2006 HATTIESBURG --- EFIB Chair George Carter has struck once again, dealing economics professor Franklin Mixon a 5-day per week, 2-location, 3-prep teaching load for spring semester 2007. Sources tell usmpride.com News that Carter’s move is another attempt to retaliate against departmental dissent, this time lashing out at Mixon for challenging Carter’s attempt to subvert faculty governance on 19 September 2006.

(October 10, 2006) Minimal Sufficiency or Adequate Evidence? "Consider the second installment reviewing Dean Doty’s memorandum in response to our grievance. He wrote, “In summary, you have failed to present objective evidence that provisions of the Faculty Handbook were violated." (Decide for yourself whether Dean Doty’s claim is accurate. See our grievance pp. 2-4. Evidence for claims in the grievance includes documents written by Drs. Carter and Doty.)" For additional documents referenced in this opinion piece: Carter memo, Doty email to Provost Grimes.

(October 11, 2006) Deconstructing Dean Doty "Consider the second installment reviewing Dean Doty’smemorandum in response to our grievance. He wrote, “Insummary, you have failed to present objective evidencethat provisions of the Faculty Handbook were violated." (Decide for yourself whether Dean Doty’s claim is accurate...".