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(August 10, 2009) CoB News, 10 August 2009 The Bad Column The recent USMNEWS.net report, "Another Nail Pal in the Bad Column," reporting on CoB dean Lance Nail's decision to hire Brian Lee from UAB, indicated that Lee's Rate My Professors score was an underwhelming 2.9 (out of 5). This finding followed on the heels of reports that the previous Nail hire, Arthur Sorochinsky (also from UAB), has an even worse RMP score of only 2.6. CoB News is following up on these stories by listing the 10 worst RMP scores across current CoB faculty. The "bad column" data are shown in Table 1 below.

(August 13, 2009) breaking news . . . CoB Dean Goes on Record Regarding Budget Cuts HATTIESBURG – Just recently the CoB cut the better part of $1.5 million from its operating budget, the result of a process that has been weeks and months in the making, and one in which USM's four other academic deans have been taking part in their respective colleges. Until now, however, it has been the CoAL's Denise von Herrmann who has served as the main spokesperson for the five USM deans. That all changed with The Hattiesburg American's Tim Doherty's 13-August-09 news report entitled "USM budget cuts: All 5 colleges may be hit," wherein CoB dean Lance Nail speaks out in some detail about the CoB's elimination of three economics programs and 9 tenured/tenure-track ECO faculty.

(August 14, 2009) breaking news . . . Carter, Klinedinst Blast Nail, USM Administration HATTIESBURG – CoB economics professors George Carter and Mark Klinedinst have thrown down the gauntlet, accusing Lance Nail of targeting the CoB's economists, not just the CoB's economics programs. In an interview with INSIDE HIGHER ED's Jack Stripling about the recent elimination of USM's economics programs, for Stripling's 14-August-09 article entitled "Cruel Irony," Carter stated that due process has been denied to economics professors who were unrepresented on the budget committee and kept in the dark about its deliberations throughout the process. Not only that, in a letter provided by Carter to Stripling, Carter accuses the USM administration, including CoB dean Lance Nail, of targeting the economics program as "simply a subterfuge to replace existing faculty."

(August 18, 2009) The ECO Terminal A Newsletter Relating to the Elimination of Economics Programs What ECOers are Saying about Lance Nail and Others A number of USMNEWS.net readers have contacted USMNEWS.net about comments that the CoB's economists are believed to be making about CoB dean Lance Nail and others in USM's administration. A number of these are appearing at the website Economics Job Market Rumors. Several of those are inserted below, with a particularly biting comment about Nail highlighted.