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(September 12, 2007) EFIB News, 12 September 2007 Is Shi Misplaced? A recent visit to the CoB's new web presence at www.usm.edu revealed some interesting news about visiting assistant professor of finance Weihua Shi. According to Shi's "blurb" on the website (inserted below), she has published an article in the International Business Review. The IBR, which is produced by Elsevier, is a high-quality IB journal,

(September 18, 2007) Breaking News Has the 2007-08 P&T Jailbreak Begun? HATTIESBURG -- Reporters at USMNEWS.NET were just on the receiving end of an e-mail in circulation that states that assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia and associate professor of economics Akbar Marvasti have submitted their applications for promotion. Recent columns at USMNEWS.NET have predicted that a P&T jailbreak of sorts was imminent, and sources claim these applications could indeed mark the beginning of that.

(September 21, 2007) Green, Marvasti, Neither, or Both? Exploring Various Promotion Scenarios in USM’s College of Business, 2007-08 News reports at USMNEWS.NET have indicated that associate professor of economics, Akbar Marvasti, has submitted his dossier for promotion to professor. Marvasti has been an associate professor at USM for one year so far, and by the end of the 2007-08 P&T process at USM, he will have been an associate professor at USM for two full years. Another associate professor of economics at USM, Trellis Green, has held that title since 1997, or for more than 10 years. Green has not heretofore submitted his application for promotion to full professor, though it is not known whether he will or not before the departmental deadline for 2007-08 consideration.1

(September 21, 2007) CoB P&T Controversies, 2007-08 Recent reports have expressed the belief of some in the CoB that the 2007-08 promotion and tenure season will be a controversial one. That belief was supported last week when it was announced that new CoB faculty Sami Dakhlia (assistant professor of economics) and Akbar Marvasti (associate professor of economics) were applying for promotions this year. While USMNEWS.NET reporters continue to follow these and others who are expected to submit their dossiers for P&T next month, there are already at least three controversial P&T "issues" that will carry over into the 2007-08 P&T process. This report re-examines them.

(September 26, 2007) Breaking News Bad News on the P&T Jailbreak Train LONG BEACH – Reporters with USMNEWS.NET have just learned that the Draughn Assistant Professor of Healthcare Marketing, Michael Wittmann, is submitting a 2007-08 application to become the Draughn Associate Professor of Healthcare Marketing. Wittmann, who some sources believe is one of the highest paid assistant professors in marketing in the South, stands to earn a 9-month taxpayer-supported salary of just under $100,000 per year with the salary increment that comes with promotion in the CoB.