Mixon

(July 31, 2006) SEDONA Files "Readers may be interested in how a typical installment of SEDONA Files comes together. We decided to present the process, using this installment as an example. First, we start with something in SEDONA that seems at least a little suspicious. For example, see the three entries below, all pertaining to the Service to the University category in the SEDONA database: ...".

(August 18, 2006) Quotable Doty 1st Edition: Doty on Economic Education "... The PR Release focuses on three USM faculty members, Melody Lo, Sunny Wong, and Frank Mixon. Of these three individuals only one (Mixon, Professor of Economics) remains at USM. Former Assistant Professors Lo (recipient of the infamous "shame on you" comment) and Wong departed USM following the 2005-2006 academic year for (respectively) the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of San Francisco, earning substantial pay increases. How hard had Doty tried to retain these budding young scholars?...".

(September 16, 2006) usmpride.com News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEVELOPING STORY HATTIESBURG --- It is being reported to usmpride.com that Ray Canterbery, the CoB's new "Scholar-in-Residence," is no longer affiliated with USM. CoB administrators are saying that Canterbery has an unnamed illness that has prevented him from serving in the CoB during the 2006-07 academic year.

(September 17, 2006) usmpride.com News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEVELOPING STORY HATTIESBURG --- New details are emerging on the story that usmpride.com broke yesterday concerning the sudden and quiet departure of newly hired Scholar-in-Residence Ray Canterbery. Sources today confirmed that George Carter, the Chair of EFIB and the CoB administrator who brought Canterbery to USM, informed Professor Frank Mixon at about noon on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, that he (Mixon) was to take over Canterbery’s ECO 672 course on Tuesday, September 19, 2006, the fourth class meeting of the semester. As it is being reported to us, Carter then departed from his office for the remainder of the afternoon, thus adding Wednesday afternoon to a planned 4-day weekend wedding trip that was to take place from September 14-17, 2006.

(September 20, 2006) usmpride.com News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEVELOPING STORY September 20, 2006 HATTIESBURG --- As reported earlier at usmpride.com, EFIB Chair George Carter distributed an e-mail to all EFIB faculty on 18 September 2006 indicating that a faculty meeting was to be held at 12:30pm on 19 September 2006. Investigators at usmpride.com have obtained a copy of Carter's memo, which was three sentences in length. That memo is presented below:

(September 25, 2006) usmpride.com News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEVELOPING STORY September 25, 2006 HATTIESBURG --- In an effort to fill in some of the missing pieces of the earlier story on Scholar in Residence Ray Canterbery’s departure, investigators at usmpride.com have received teaching load information from economics professor Frank Mixon. At our request Mixon sent the information in text form and our investigators have tabulated that information, as shown in the table below.