JAY GRIMES, FORMER PROVOST, USM
(December 13, 2006) 8-Dec-06 CoB Meeting News Bytes "... CoB Dean Harold Doty has completed work
on the first 4 of the 5 AACSB Strategic Management Standards. Doty told the CoB that he is delaying
completion of the 5th as a way to leverage more money from USM Provost Jay Grimes.
Commentary: Is AACSB important, or not? When Grimes hears he’s being used (again) by Doty in this
way, it’ll be hard for him (Grimes) to believe it is important. And, he’ll (Grimes) be right in thinking so...".
(February 7, 2007) Thames, Grimes Duped "Over the past three years, CoB Dean Harold Doty has played
the 'AACSB card' with USM's central administration every chance he could. He forced the economic
development department out of the CoB because, as he described it, their continued presence jeopardized
AACSB accreditation. Doty also withheld work on AACSB Standard #5 as a way of 'leveraging' more
funds from Grimes and Thames for the AACSB effort. Now we learn that about all Doty leveraged from
that sorry act was a warm bowl of AACSB probation...".
(June 12, 2007) 2007 Merit Raises in the CoB A Step Forward or the Last Straw? If reports coming out of the
CoB’s Management & Marketing Department are accurate, the unrest that results from revelations of the
CoB’s 2007 merit raise process may reach unprecedented levels. Though the lack of transparency in raises
and other evaluation processes has troubled USMNEWS.NET officials for some time, the 2007 merit raise
process at USM is breaking new ground when it comes to concerns about transparency from a broader
based constituency.