DR. AKBAR MARVASTI,
FORMER ECONOMICS PROFESSOR
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(October 20, 2006)(updated October 23, 2006)(updated October 30, 2006) Special Report What is Carter’s Attack on Dissenters Costing the CoB? An Investigative Series on the use of the CoB’s Budget "This Special Report examines some of the extraordinary moves being made by EFIB Chair George Carter to suppress dissent in his department and in the College of Business. As usmpride.com has reported, Carter orchestrated the “Black Tuesday” re-vote in the EFIB (19 Sept 2006) that resulted in a duly constituted 3-faculty governance committee being disbanded (see “Black Tuesday” page at usmpride.com). Tuesday coup...".
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).
(May 14, 2007) Point/Counterpoint Can Foreign-Born Faculty Excel in American Universities?