WILLIAM GUNTHER, FORMER DEAN, COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
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(August 29, 2006) Black to Fade "When he’s not telling faculty and administrators at other universities that he’s done more to establish a research culture in the CoB than any prior Dean, current Dean Harold Doty is ripping through the last vestiges of Black’s hard work like a man on a mission. Since Doty’s arrival in 2003, the CoB has experienced a “letter of agreement” promotion to full, a fourth year review, and a number of other untoward movements that have detracted from the base Black built throughout the 1990s. Where Black operated, at least for a time, like Jerry Maguire, Harold Doty runs the CoB more like Bob Sugar. Nowadays everything is personal, especially gain...".

(September 11, 2006) Quotable Doty, part 4, Underfunded Centers and Full Time Fundraisers "Soon after Frank Pickering was run out of USM, the College of Business and Economic Development (CBED) got its present “development officer”, the administrator buzzword for fundraiser, Emile Dieth. ...Just what does Dieth do for Doty? Doty answered that question during his job interview at the University of South Florida. ... Wow!
(July 31, 2006) 31st & Pearl The WSJAPP as Told by One Who Was There "I have been visiting this site for quite a while. The op/ed column "31st & Pearl" is a good way for me to tell a story that serves many purposes if told. That story is the story of the Wall Street Journal Academic Partnership Program at the COB...".
(August 11, 2006) A Closer Look at the Undergraduate Academic Services Office in the CoB "Former CoB Dean William Gunther established the Undergraduate Academic Services Office early on in his tenure as dean. The project consumed multiple faculty salary lines and displaced the undergraduate student lounge in Joseph Greene Hall. The Office has undergone some change over the years, though the size of the office has remained relatively stable at five members, plus any work study or graduate assistants. The annotated table below summarizes salary changes by position in the UAS Office, along with raises given to position lines and salary savings from reducing salary lines...".