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(July 31, 2007) Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball? The most common question CoB faculty have asked, after being informed about the enormous raises awarded (in 2007) to new CoB faculty Sami Dakhlia (assistant professor of economics) and Akbar Marvasti (associate professor of economics), has been: What did they do? The following analysis shows the likely motivation behind such a question.

(August 3, 2007) The Per$ianization of the 2007 Merit Rai$e Proce$$ The results of the 2007 merit raise process have been released, and the data show that former CoB Associate Dean and professor of economics Farhang Niroomand, and associate professor of economics Akbar Marvasti, both natives of Iran, were big winners. The two garnered about $14,000 in raise monies out of a single A-level journal publication combined. Meanwhile, a number of CoB faculty with multiple A-level publications over the 2004-present raise window (e.g., Talai Osmonbekov, etc.) received insulting raises, ranging from just over $1,000 to about $4,500.

(August 5, 2007) The Case For the Dakhlia–Marvasti 2007 Merit Raise Gets Worse A USMNEWS.NET reader recently contacted our reporters about one of the analyses in our report “Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?” and offered a very useful suggestion. For readers who are not familiar with this report, it can be found at Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?.

(August 14, 2007) ECONewbies Institutional Affiliations on the Research of EFIB’s Favorite Sons A number of reports at USMNEWS.NET have examined the 2007 merit raises of Sami Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti, two of EFIB Chair George Carter’s favorite CoB faculty (and two faculty who joined the CoB in mid August 2006). One report compared the combined 2007 merit raises of Dakhlia and Marvasti – which totaled about $17,500 – to the combined total of $8,500 for Franklin Mixon and Edward Nissan.1 What’s striking about that report is that the research over the appraisal period (2004-Present) that was produced by Mixon-Nissan is leaps and bounds beyond what the tandem of Dakhlia and Marvasti submitted to Carter for consideration.

(August 31, 2007) Prince Akbar The June 2007 issue of “EFIB News” (see EFIB News, June 2007) reported on associate professor of economics Akbar Marvasti’s (shown below) request to participate in USM’s QEP faculty development seminar program. In making his request, Marvasti asked EFIB chair George Carter to apply a one-course reduction in his (Marvasti’s) teaching, as opposed to a $1,500 research stipend.

(September 14, 2007) 31st & Pearl Why Such a Difficult Time? We've all heard it, over and over again. Harold Doty telling those assembled at USF in September of 2005: "I have a difficult time using State E&G dollars to supplement faculty salaries." We've heard it so many times that you might even believe it. Well, don't. The record shows there's nothing "difficult" about it -- using State E&G dollars to boost faculty salaries, that is.