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(May 28, 2008 ) Instructors Instructors can serve many uses in academic departments. The CoB traditionally loved
instructors (Dean Tyrone Black literally did – his wife was an instructor in accounting) and had one in most, if not all,
departments. Economics has always desired many instructors because they (economics faculty) are resource hogs.
(May 31, 2008 ) Back to pickaprof-Dom As long-time readers are aware, from time to time USMNEWS.NET reporters
visit the data available at pickaprof in order to gauge the quality of instruction across the faculty in the Southern Miss
CoB. The quality protocols employed by pickaprof exceed those of most, if not all, of the other online databases of this
sort. As such, this source is often highlighted by USMNEWS.NET.
(June 2, 2008 ) Special Report Let's Spin the Wheel Gut Courses and Gut Profs in the MGT & MKT Department It's that
time again -- time for CoB students to spin the wheel on the course scheduling process and see what comes up. In this
report, USMNEWS.NET provides its annual look at grade distributions across courses and faculty in USM's College of
Business. As always, the grades are provided to us by pickaprof, and, in the words of pickaprof, these "[g]rade histories
are (painstakingly) obtained directly from university records."
(June 3, 2008 ) Back to RATEMYPROFESORS-Dom As long-time readers are aware, from time to time USMNEWS.NET
reporters visit the data available at RATEMYPROFESSORS in order to gauge the quality of instruction across the faculty
in the Southern Miss CoB. This was recently done once again (May 2008), and the results are shown in Table 1 below.