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(February 12, 2009) Is the CoB Becoming the U of Phoenix? A Look at the Mother of All Detrimental Residency Decisions Revelations over the past few months that more and more CoB faculty are choosing to live outside of Mississippi leave little reason to believe that CoB dean Lance Nail will ever turn the tide in USM's business school. With former dean and current economics professor/director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Development William Gunther living in Josephine, AL, while accounting professor Charles Jordan lives in Panama City, FL, those few CoB faculty who remain in Hattiesburg and are working hard to elevate the reputation of the organization are finding it next to impossible to keep up morale.

(February 24, 2009) Human Resources Bulletin 1st Quarter 2009 If CoB faculty are wondering just how much harm can be done to the organization's scholarship portfolio from all of the long-distance residency decisions being made by CoB faculty, one only has to look at the research dossiers of William Gunther (professor of economics) and Robert Smith (associate professor of accounting). Gunther, who maintains permanent residence in Josephine, AL, has not published in a substantial refereed journal in years. Smith, who maintains a residence in Atlanta, GA, is quickly advancing on "Gunther territory" when it comes to academic research.

(March 9, 2009) “If We Believe It . . . They Will Come” Why Dean Lance Nail Needs to Get William Gunther Out of the Public Eye USM constituents are all too familiar with professor William Gunther’s role in USM’s CoB. Gunther heads the CoB’s Bureau of Business and Economic Development, and in that capacity he often has occasion to speak out about the nation’s (and Mississippi’s) current economic crisis.

(March 9, 2009) 31st & Pearl Unstreetable Kettle & Pot The recent USMNEWS.net reports and editorials on William Gunther's opining, in his official capacity as director of the CoB's Bureau of Business & Economic Research, for $800 billion economic stimulus proposals has us pining for the days when former CBA dean Tyrone Black closed up the Bureau the first time around. Black knew what former CoB dean Harold Doty didn't, and what current dean Lance Nail appears not to, and that is that any business bureau in USM's b-school is a use (waste) of resources meant only to cushion the existence of favored CoBers. In this case it's Gunther, and his associate Ed Ranck.

(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.