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(September 21, 2008) ". . . Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To" An Editorial on Nail's New $1 Million Summer Research Program New CoB dean Lance Nail is to be applauded for convincing the Martha Saunders administration to provide $1 million in summer research support (for the CoB) over the next three years. This support, and Nail's leadership, will go a long way toward avoiding the AACSB accreditation troubles that seemed to define the CoB under former dean Harold Doty. The plan will also get the CoB's faculty moving back toward the quality standard set during the Tyrone Black administration, when students and alumni of USM's business school were so proud to be associated with an organization that was a vibrant place to study and learn.

(September 19, 2008) CoB News, 19 September 2008 Cool Beans Word that the Martha Saunders administration of USM has committed $1,000,000 to the CoB’s research efforts over the next three years only adds to growing confidence that new CoB dean Lance Nail (shown below) will eventually turn the CoB around and move it back towards its former glory. According to the plan, Saunders et al. will provide more than $330,000 to the CoB in each of the next three summers in order to support summer research grants for CoB faculty. Individually, these grants will be as large as 10% of a recipient’s 9-month pay, representing a commitment at least as good as that gained through award of a University Research Council summer research grant. One difference is that this commitment is CoB-specific, and it will be extended over a much broader scale than the URC process (on a per-college basis).

(September 30, 2008) Seven Questions Interviews with Current/Former CoB Faculty about Life in and Outside the CoB This begins a new series here at USMNEWS.net where current and former CoB profs are interviewed by USMNEWS.net. Their answers to seven questions promise to be both informative and interesting. Let’s jump right in with seven questions for a current CoBer: Q1. How have things changed around the CoB and Greene Hall since the arrival of new dean Lance Nail?

(October 2, 2008) Seven Questions Interviews with Current/Former CoB Faculty about Life in and Outside the CoB Q1. As a former business faculty at USM, how would you describe the CoB of recent years?

(October 7, 2008) The Carter Bunch A Look at How George Carter's Politics May Ruin the Nail Administration Have no doubts about it, EFIB chairman George Carter is on a mission to bring down the new Lance Nail administration of USM's College of Business. And, with the hiring and firing and "friendraising" efforts he has made over the past two decades, he may indeed pull it off before it is all over. This column is Part 1 in a three-part series of opinion pieces that will attempt to explain just how Carter may pull off the coup that some in the CoB are hoping for and others are nervous about.