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(June 14, 2007) Breaking News Recent MBA Grad to Join CoB Faculty Ranks HATTIESBURG – Staffers at USMNEWS.NET have learned that Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams has hired a recent USM MBA grad to fill the marketing faculty slot vacated by Tara Lopez (PhD, Louisiana Tech), an assistant professor of marketing who recently accepted an offer from Southeastern Louisiana University. That hire is reported to be Amber Rivers, a 2006 graduate of USM’s dual MBA/MSM program. As described in the press release below, Rivers has been serving as an Intern for NASCAR.

(June 27, 2007) Need a Job? Check out the CoB The following CoB-related employment possibilities were found on the USM website during June of 2007. Some are quite interesting.

(July 2, 2007) CoB News, 2 July 2007 We have a number of interesting news items to report from the CoB as we hit the middle of the summer of 2007. A few of these are detailed below.

(July 16, 2007) 31st & Pearl Shooting for the Stars The recent report entitled "CoB Castles" is getting a lot of discussion around the CoB these days. We thought it would be interesting to take a different approach than the one taken by the authors of that report (and what we hear is a small series) by drawing some comparisons to non-CoBers in the community.

(July 16, 2007) Slogging or Skating? Home Values and "Anchor Ratios" for CoB Faculty A reader of usmnews.net suggested to us that we divide the "Total Parcel Value" for each CoB faculty listed in our recent report, "CoB Castles," by that faculty's 2006-07 (contracted) salary. He/she called this ratio the "anchor ratio," and suggested to us that it might provide at least some indication of the stress CoB faculty find themselves under when it comes to home ownership finance.

(July 19, 2007) CoB Castles Calculator for Non-CoBers CoB Home Values Compared to Those in Average City, USA
It has occurred to us that the house values listed in our recent report, "CoB Castles," lack a point of reference for many of our readers. To address this, we have converted the "Total Parcel Value" listed for each CoB faculty in that report into a "Value in Average City, USA," dollar figure, using the sources indicated in the Sources section of the table below.