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(June 4, 2008) Perks for Buds IV Size Really Doesn’t Matter MIS has been under scrutiny - again - recently for a drop in their number of majors. They were asked again, this time by Interim Dean Alvin Williams, to, in essence, justify their existence. Part of the decline in student credit hours was the elimination of the two one-hour skills courses; arguably those classes are no longer necessary, but if you query the CoB faculty you find a consensus that the CoB students do not possess enough computer skills.

(June 6, 2008) No More Worries A 2008-09 Course Scheduling Guide for Floundering CoB Students One only has to visit the first floor corridors of Joseph Greene Hall, home of USM's College of Business, just days prior to the beginning of a new semester to see that a large number of CoB students have academic difficulties at one time or another. It is then that the CoB's Academic Suspension Committee meets to decide the fates of suspended CoB students' appeals for reinstatement. The students, themselves, crowd the first floor corridors and classrooms of JGH at this time, waiting for their individual appeal hearings.

(June 17, 2008) CoB Flashback: December 8, 2006 The CoB's final fall 2006 faculty meeting was held on December 8, 2006. There is much to remember about the details of that meeting. So many things occurred that day, and many of them have received significant attention on the pages of USMNEWS.NET. One thing that has received short shrift is the CoB's decision to form a committee to address various classroom misbehaviors of CoB students.

(June 24, 2008) CoB News, 24 June 2008 Chills Down Their Spines Three former USM soccer coaches were awarded $1.2 million in damages last week in Forrest County Circuit Court. According to Tim Doherty's 21-June-08 article for The Hattiesburg American entitled "Ex-USM coaches awarded damages," former head soccer coach John Vincent and two assistant coaches filed a sexual harassment, sexual discrimination and lack of due process lawsuit back in 2000. The suit named USM, former USM President Horace Fleming, USM Athletics Director Richard Giannini and Senior Women's Athletics Director Sonya Varnell as defendants.

(June 27, 2008) Boilerplate Language? An Investigation of Citation Usage in Administrative Functions As has been reported in this forum, the USMNEWS.net editor, Dr. C.M. DePree, Jr., filed a complaint with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and with USM regarding CoB administrators’ plagiarism of materials from Central Missouri State University and Syracuse University.

(July 30, 2008) Course Raiders How the CoB is Losing Control over Business Courses at USM One of the more pressing issues in USM's business school over the past few years has been the raiding of business-related courses by other divisions of the University. This study examines some of the areas affected by this activity. This is done by way of an inspection of the Fall 2008 Course Schedule Guide, which is available from the USM Registrar's Office. That inspection begins below with CHS 425 and CHS 428 (CHS=Community Health Sciences).