DR. TONY HENTHORNE, FORMER PROFESSOR OF MARKETING,
CURRENT CHAIR DEPARMENT OF TOURISM AND CONVENTION MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS
CURRENT CHAIR DEPARMENT OF TOURISM AND CONVENTION MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS
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(March 9, 2008) CoB to Lose Journal of Tourism, and Possibly More from TM HATTIESBURG – The news that
Tourism Management Chair, Tony Henthorne, had secured the Journal of Tourism for the CoB was only days old
when the news broke that Henthorne had accepted the post of Chair of the tourism management unit at UNLV. Now,
Henthorne, the jounal's senior editor, and the JoT are headed to Las Vegas' Harrah College. The loss of Henthorne and
the JoT comes as more than a double whammy for the CoB, given that Interim CoB Dean, Alvin Williams, only recently
launched a public relations campaign on behalf of TM that began with the news of the JoT and culminated with the
story that TM instructor, David Paster, had been brought into the CoB to restructure the CoB's TM curriculum. With the
loss of Henthorne and the JoT, that campaign now looks like yet another example of squandered resources.
(May 27, 2008) 2007-2008 CoB Awards Another academic year draws to a close, it is time to look back and salute some
of the CoB faculty members would will not otherwise get their just rewards. The following is a list of the major awards:
(July 21, 2008) Special Report Traveling to the Top of TM An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials
A USMNEWS.net reader recently commented that the list of CoB faculty who have exited the CoB since 2003 contains
the names. The story of "the greatest ever" in tourism management is an interesting one. To begin, the business school
at USM adopted the tourism management department in 2003, after former USM President, Shelby Thames, fired
about 10 University deans and reorganized the University. When the reorganization went through, about five TM
faculty joined the CoB.1 In those early days, then-MGT & MKT chair, Alvin Williams, assumed the title interim chair
for TM. A search for a permanent replacement was launched immediately. After a year-long search, sources say that
Williams attempted to hire Cherylynn Becker from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. A coalition of
central administrators, along with TM faculty Joe Hutchinson, blocked the hiring of Becker (for undisclosed reasons).
(August 7, 2008) MADMEN A Look Back at the Marketing Empire that Almost Was by Duane Cobb All of the
discussion around USMNEWS.net about "the greatest ever" scholars in each of the CoB's units raised some interesting
conclusions. One of these is that the CoB's marketing unit peaked higher than any other unit in CoB history, thanks
largely to the leadership of former College of Business Administration dean, Tyrone Black. During the mid-1980s and
into the mid- to late-1990s, Black put together a marketing faculty group with such powerhouses that the new
award-winning AMC television series Mad Men, a drama about a group of high-powered ad executives, is almost more
reminiscent of the CoB's marketing faculty team of the late 1980s and early 1990s than it is of the 1960s big city ad
agency.