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(January 24, 2008) Breaking News Vest Set to Retire HATTIESBURG – Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that management professor, Michael Vest, will be entering retirement at the close of the 2007-08 academic year. Vest's departure, combined with the news that associate professor of management, Jon Carr, will be resigning his post in the CoB at the end of 2008, significantly diminishes the CoB's management unit. In recent years, Vest and Carr teamed up to produce an article in the Journal of Management, and Carr collaborated with colleagues outside of USM's CoB to produce an article for The Academy of Management Journal. These types of contributions will not likely come from their replacements, assuming that the CoB's administration will be allowed to replace either of these faculty with permanent (i.e., tenure-track) hires.

(January 31, 2008) Special Report Instructor-centric An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Credentials As time goes by, adjuncts and instructors are playing a larger and larger role in the daily life of USM's College of Business. What were once thought of as "supporting faculty," the CoB's adjuncts and instructors increasingly resemble "participating faculty." If the current trend continues, the CoB's 2012 AACSB Accreditation prospects may look dimmer than previously thought.

(February 1, 2008) Special Report Transient Independent Contractors Dominate CoB An Investigative Report on CoB Demographics What has been referred to as the "human resource situation" in the CoB is getting worse. The "CoB Faculty Turnover" list compiled by reporters at USMNEWS.NET only grows longer and longer with each passing semester. And, the CoB's AACSB accreditation process will come full cycle again in less than four years from now. In recent days, reporters at USMNEWS.NET have examined some CoB faculty characteristics. One of the divisions that was explored by reporters is the tenured/untenured status of the CoB's faculty.

(February 2, 2008) Special Report Holes in the Core An Investigative Report on CoB Faculty Credentials A previous installment in the Special Report series entitled "Transient Independent Contractors . . ." pointed out that the CoB's faculty ranks are increasingly becoming concentrated with untenured faculty and instructors, adjuncts, and visitors. This installment in the Special Report series examines how the CoB students are being adversely affected, through staffing decisions involving the CoB core curriculum, by the unprecedented faculty turnover since 2003, the year that former CoB Dean Harold Doty arrived in Hattiesburg from Syracuse University.

(February 3, 2008) Breaking News EFIB Hires Pascalau to Fill Gaps HATTIESBURG – EFIB Chairman, George Carter, has hired Razvan Pascalau to plug some of the spring 2008 scheduling holes left in the EFIB by various resignations and leave notices. Pascalau is currently a PhD student at the University of Alabama, and he will be teaching two sections of BA 301 (Managerial Statistics) and one section of ECO 201 (Principles of Macroeconomics) for Carter and the EFIB.