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(August 10, 2007) Breaking News Haggard Replacement Found in Two Visiting Hires GULFPORT – News has reached USMNEWS.NET offices indicating that EFIB Chair George Carter has hired Timothy Perry, a PhD student in finance at Texas Tech University, to replace former EFIB assistant professor of finance Stephen Haggard. In a new twist, however, Perry will join the CoB’s Gulf Coast faculty, while Haggard was attached to the Hattiesburg branch of the department. Haggard departed the EFIB after just one year (2006-07) in order to join the finance faculty at Missouri State University. Haggard’s wife, Dana, also departed the CoB’s Management & Marketing Department to take a similar position at Missouri State University.

(August 27, 2007) CoB Web Pages get Major Facelift Mistakes and Mis-statements Still Reign A recent visit to the CoB’s web pages at www.usm.edu revealed that the CoB’s Internet presence has been almost entirely revamped. The main page, shown below, is where one first notices major changes.

(September 4, 2007) Breaking News Williams Concludes that CoB Vitae are Not Confidential HATTIESBURG – Since asked by USMNEWS.NET’s editor (on 10-Apr-07) whether or not he views CoB vitae as secret or confidential, Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams has remained silent on the issue. That is, until the CoB’s Fall 2007 Faculty Meeting on 31-Aug-07, wherein Williams announced that he was starting a program to develop individualized web pages for CoB faculty that would house CoB faculty vitae.

(September 6, 2007) Effects of Real Estate Program’s Demise Already Showing “Wreck Coming Up in the Curve Ahead” “Sounds like the [Hattiesburg] realtors are living in a fantasy world . . .” tcmullic, 2007 If you had a chance to visit the 6-Sept-07 issue of The Hattiesburg American you couldn’t help but notice the article by staff writer Emma James entitled “Housing market is ‘balanced,’ realtors say.” For convenience, a copy of that article is inserted below:

(September 10, 2007) Special Report More Bad News Facing CoB Faculty Search Committees An Investigative Series on Service Responsibilities in the CoB As if CoB faculty search committees did not already face difficult tasks convincing job candidates to give USM serious consideration, it now appears that news from Hattiesburg-area K-12 educational institutions will only serve to make matters worse.

(September 11, 2007) CoB Castles and CoB Merit Raises USMNEWS.NET has examined the CoB’s 2007 merit raise data (2007 CoB Merit Raises) in combination with the data on CoB faculty home values that was uncovered in the “CoB Castles” report (CoB Castles).