DR. AKBAR MARVASTI,
FORMER ECONOMICS PROFESSOR
October 24, 2006)(updated October 30, 2006) Special Report How Many Decades Equals "Established?" An Investigation
into Course Scheduling in the CoB "This Special Report examines the spring 2007 teaching schedule in the EFIB.
Sources tell usmpride.com that EFIB Chair George Carter provided soft schedules to the newly hired economists
because they "are not established in the profession yet." This report looks at the spring 2007 teaching schedule of one of
the two new hires in economics, Akbar Marvasti. Marvasti's spring 2007 schedule is presented below:...".
(April 5, 2007) The Persianization of USM’s College of Business A number of usmnews.net readers have commented
that, with the recent announcement that Barry and Laurie Babin are departing USM’s College of Business after spring
semester 2007, Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand (see below) appears to be attempting to rebuild his power base
within the CoB’s administrative structure.
(May 8, 2007) Hosed by Carter Recently, a complaint filed by an EFIB professor against EFIB Chairman George Carter’s
2006 annual evaluation practices made its way to USMNEWS.NET. That complaint, along with other documentation
sent to reporters at USMNEWS.NET, provide the basis for this report, which shows that Carter is not inconvenienced by
honesty and truth when it comes to the evaluation of the faculty in his department.
(May 11, 2007) Life on the EFIB Plantation Will George Carter’s “Your Field Only” Rule for EFIB Research be Applied
Equally?The subtitle above is the question of the day in the EFIB, and perhaps only time will reveal the answer, if ever.
While we wait, reporters at USMNEWS.NET have compiled several tables in order to draw some preliminary findings
about how the EFIB’s untenured faculty look against Carter’s unwritten rule about publishing only in one’s field of
expertise. The series of tables below report refereed journal articles since the turn of the century for all untenured
tenure-track faculty in the EFIB who are expected to submit tenure dossiers in the CoB. The information on refereed
journals articles is taken from each faculty’s Sedona vita (provided to USMNEWS.NET via a Mississippi Open Records
Act request).