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(May 5, 2009) Brandt in Two In and Around USM’s College of Business The other leading candidate for the 2011 LKBA is Trellis Green, an associate professor of economics. According to information in USMNEWS.net's LKBA files, Green will have two publications in the A-level Applied Economics in his award portfolio. That might not be enough to ultimately win the award for Green, but it should be enough to keep him in the running, even near the top of the list, for the next 18 months.

(May 26, 2009) Secret Pay Raises? Recent history at USM demands that faculty bodies, such as the Faculty Senate, consider once again the possibility that "secret" pay raises will be dispensed over summer 2009. In implementing such programs in the past, USM authorities noted that "deserving" individuals needed to be rewarded. There are always a few "deserving" individuals in the CoB, though the "secret" raises of the past often went to the "undeserving" as well.

(July 19, 2009) As the CoB Turns While CoB economics professor William Gunther, currently the director of the CoB's Bureau of Business and Economic Research, drones on about "consumer confidence" at the BBER's mid-year economic conference down on the Mississippi coast, recently hired finance professor Francis Laatsch finally took the in-person reins of his new department, the FINRELS (finance, real estate and legal studies). Meanwhile, Laatsch's new department seems in disarray, partially due to the last- minute departure of associate professor John Clark.