named professorships

(July 27, 2006)(updated July 29, 2006) Who Now Holds the Kaetsu Professorship? An Investigation into Missing(?) Supplemental Funds in the CoB "A number of usmpride.com readers have queried regarding the current whereabouts of the Kaetsu Distinguished Professorship in International Business. Some time ago we began an investigation into its whereabouts, and what we have uncovered to date is presented below...".

(July 28, 2006) 31st & Pearl: Dude, where's my Kaetsu Prof? "A Distinguished Professorship held in secret. Where else but "Mississippi's Business School" is there so much PRIDE in who they are and what they do that they want to keep it all hidden? That's the question we have after reading the Special Report here at usmpride.com on the "missing" Kaetsu Distinguished Professorship in International Business...".

(October 16, 2006) Special Report Is Michael Wittmann Earning More Than $100,000? An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Salaries "This Special Report re-visits the 2006-07 starting salaries data obtained by usmpride.com through an open records act request. The data obtained from USM’s Human Resource Department is presented below:...".

(April 3, 2008) 31st & Pearl The Kaetsu Chair Goes Round and Round, Round and Round, . . . With Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams' departure for South Alabama looming, it's not too early to begin speculation about the fate of the CoB's Kaetsu Distinguished Chair of International Business, a goodie Williams now holds despite being a marketing professor (i.e., not IB) and the Dean (i.e., not a regular'line faculty). Conventional wisdom would say that three individuals are front runners, and, by "CoB wisdom" only, the CoB's sole IB professor, John Lambert, is not among them.

(April 28, 2008) Breaking News "Floundering CoB" Making "Half-Hearted" Fundraising Effort HATTIESBURG -- On 25 April 2008, Interim CoB Dean, Alvin Williams, e-mailed members of the CoB's management team and informed them that Meredith Cothern, the CoB's new Development Officer, would be visiting the chairs in each of the CoB's three departments in order to assess the "development-related' situation in each area.

(May 7, 2008) The 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award: A Look Ahead Part 1 With the 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award less than one year away, USMNEWS reporters have decided to take a look at the top contenders for the award, on a unit-by-unit basis. Each unit will be covered in this multi-part series, and the final installment in this series will aggregate all of the information from each issue in order to present an overall ranking of contenders

(May 7, 2008) Glancing Back Two years ago, here was how the Harold Doty administration handed out the booty. How did they do?