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(April 24, 2008) CoB News, 24 April 2008 Google Scholar Citations Sluggers The Google Scholars citations analyses here at USMNEWS.NET usually make for some of our more popular reports. For those of you who have recently ventured out into GS-land, you may have noticed that Google has been working on implementing an upgrade to that engine. No group is more excited about that than USMNEWS.NET’s reporters. While we await that, there are some additional elements of research quality in the CoB to consider.

(July 15, 2008 ) CoB News, 15 July 2008 The Future of Research Quality in the CoB? According to Jackson, publishing in A-level journals matters only for tenure. That would mean that A-level hits add nothing to one's annual evaluation package, or to one's promotion application. The CoB's administrators, and USM President Martha Saunders for that matter, do not really care whether or not USM faculty publish in A-level journals. As far as Jackson is concerned, journals should not even hold the distinction of being "As" (or "Bs," etc.).

(August 10, 2008 ) Breaking News Jackson Embarrasses Self, CoB at AAA Meeting in California ANAHEIM – The CoB's Interim SAIS Director, Steven Jackson, embarrassed both himself and USM's CoB at the recent American Accounting Association's annual meeting in Anaheim, California. Jackson attended a morning session featuring a presentation by USMNEWS.net's editor, Marc DePree, who also introduced Jackson to the session's moderator.

(August 11, 2008 ) Editorial I doubt our Interim Director of the School of Accounting and Information Systems, Steve Jackson, has a clue why professors at the AnnualAmerican Accounting Association Meeting thought it was disgusting and outrageous that he, a University of Southern Mississippi administrator, recorded research presentations. (The title of my presentation was, "Does Accreditation Provied a Relaiable Authority on Academic Quality?") Steve's behavior goes to the heart of bureaucratic ignoracne. Interim Director Jackson, like other administrators, act on behalf of a powerful institution and his behavior is backed by, at a minimum, an implicit threat. At USM, the threat quickly becomes punishment for speach they consider outside the bounds of being a "team player."

(October 7, 2008) Bad Apples A Look at How George Carter's Politics May Ruin the Nail Administration Have no doubts about it, EFIB chairman George Carter is on a mission to bring down the new Lance Nail administration of USM's College of Business. And, with the hiring and firing and "friendraising" efforts Carter has made over the past two decades, he may indeed pull it off before it is all over. This column is Part 2 in a three-part series of opinion pieces that will attempt to explain just how Carter may pull off the coup that some in the CoB are hoping for and others are nervous about.