DR. TRELLIS GREEN, FORMER ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
(October 5, 2007) GH Chatter, The Jim Henderson chatter from our last installment gets even more interesting.
Some faculty are saying that Henderson boasted, at the 4-May-07 CoB faculty meeting, about having "bombed"
more undergraduate students than any other faculty present in the meeting room (JGH 303). What is it with some
faculty accounting faculty wanting to see students do bad?
(April 24, 2008) USM's College of Business: A Certified Retirement Community A number of reports here at
USMNEWS.NET have focused on various forms of service dereliction by CoB administrators and the faculty they
protect. A good example of the former is EFIB Chair George Carter's Council of Chairs dereliction, while an example
of the latter is economics professor William Gunther's Faculty Senate dereliction.This report takes a fresh look at
the types of service dereliction covered in past reports by examining CoB faculty attendance at recent Academic
Council and Graduate Council meetings.
(August 19, 2008) Making a Move An Update to the 2009 Louis K. Brandt Predictions When we last visited our
predictions for the CoB’s 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award, MIS stalwart, Fujun Lai, stood solidly at the top.
Though that remains true even today, Lai’s hold on the top position is a bit more tenuous heading into fall 2008, the
stretch run. A recent Internet search has revealed that CoB economist, Trellis Green, has not one recent A-level
publication, as reported earlier, but two.
(September 10, 2008) Economoney A Look at the 2008-09 Salaries in ECO Continuing recent reports examining some
of the financials in the CoB's economics unit, this report presents the 2008-09 salaries for all of the CoB-H's
economics faculty. These data, which come from the 2008-09 USM Budget Book, are shown below in Table 1.
(March 22, 2009) Our Most Talented Colleagues Unique A-Level Hits of Current & Former CoB Faculty – Economics
In May of 2007, untenured assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia, a first-year CoB faculty who, to use EFIB
chairman George Carter's term, had just been "canned" by the University of Alabama, took the floor at the end of
the CoB's spring 2007 convocation. He then proceeded to blast the USMNEWS.net editor and various CoB faculty for
speaking out against the CoB's administration in a way Dakhlia felt encouraged his (Dakhlia's) most talented
colleagues to leave USM. Of course, Dakhlia wasn't speaking out in support of those CoB faculty who had been
abused by CoB administrators, as management professor Sharon Topping had spoken for only minutes before
Dakhlia was handed the rostrum by then-interim CoB dean Alvin Williams. The faculty Topping referred to were
beginning to leave the CoB as well by spring of 2007. Dakhlia, however, was, according to sources, speaking on
behalf of CoBers (and Dakhlia's friends) like Zaher Hallab (tourism management) and Akbar Marvasti (economics),
CoB administrators' favorites who were either leaving the CoB at that time or expressing a desire to do so.