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(November 30, 2007) Special Report Is the CoB it’s Own Little World? A Look at the Results of the Faculty Welfare Survey from Fall ‘07 At the beginning of fall semester 2007, USM faculty completed a “faculty welfare survey” that was sponsored by USM’s Faculty Senate. These surveys were filled out by CoB faculty at their respective Aug/Sept-07 departmental meetings. Recently, the FS’s Faculty Welfare Committee released the results of these surveys in a format that shows a college-by-college ranking of “faculty concerns” that are based on the information obtained from the surveys. USM faculty addressed six areas of potential concern through that fall 2007 survey.

(December 3, 2007) Breaking News Goodwin Coming Home HATTIESBURG – CoB finance faculty candidate, Kimberly Goodwin, a PhD student in finance at the University of Alabama, has accepted an offer to join George Carter's EFIB for the beginning of the 2008-09 academic year. As reported previously by USMNEWS.NET, Goodwin holds a Master's degree from USM, qualifying her as an early participant in the CoB's 2007-08 "Bring 'Em All Home" hiring program. The addition of Goodwin also means that the 20 percent of the CoB's corps of instruction in finance have a degree from USM.

(December 3, 2007) Finance's "UofAL Moratorium" Ends Last Vestiges of Doty's Draconian Policy Eliminated with Hiring of Goodwin Shortly after taking over as Dean of USM's College of Business and Economic Development in the summer of 2003, D. Harold Doty issued (verbally) a moratorium in the EFIB on hiring applicants holding PhDs from the University of Alabama. As sources have stated, under Doty's policy, simply holding a PhD from UofAL was enough to eliminate a candidate from consideration, even if the candidate in question was ranked highly by a finance faculty search committee. And, the reason or reasons for such a policy were never fully/thoroughly articulated by Doty.

(December 5, 2007) GH Chatter This is the time of the semester when students often request recommendation letters from CoB faculty. It seems that some faculty in management and marketing are directing that students write the letters themselves, and, when finished, present them to the respective faculty for signatures. Of course, this response is not meeting with glee from those CoB students on the receiving end of the directive, who see it as further evidence that CoB faculty are lazy and overpaid.

(December 5, 2007) Special Report Withering on the Vine? A Look at the CoB Faculty Numbers, 1991-2007 The recent Special Report about the merit raises of CoB Deans ("Dean ME") revealed some data that represent a disturbing trend facing USM's College of Business. Since the early 1990s, the CoB's faculty ranks have fallen from 80 faculty (1993) to 62 faculty (2007). This represents a 22.5 percent decline in the number of faculty over the 15-year period.1 The picture from 1991 to 2007 is represented in the figure below: