JAY GRIMES, FORMER PROVOST, USM
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(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...".
(August 29, 2006) The Black Friday Memo Revisited: Were we blinded by trickery or our own prejudices? "On Friday, February 4, 2005, Harold Doty read portions of a memo from USM Provost Jay Grimes that detailed a number of issues regarding a (then) recent meeting between Grimes, Doty, ...".
(April 2, 2007) Hal Greene editorial cartoon, "Freeing the Power of Bad Administrators"
(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.