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(February 10, 2008) CoB News, 11 February 2008 Is George Here to Stay? With Janis May's 7-Feb-08 press release entitled "Southern Miss Professors Take on Editorship of International Tourism Journal," it looks like visiting assistant professor of tourism management, Babu George, may have found a permanent home in USM's College of Business. May's presser, inserted below, indicates that George will hold the "Managing Editor" title for the Journal of Tourism, a periodical that will be co-published by USM's CoB and Garhwal University (India).

(February 16, 2008) Breaking News "Department of International Business Chair," Farhang Niroomand, Named Princeton Premier Honored Member HATTIESBURG -- News recently came across the wire stating that CoB economics professor, Farhang Niroomand, was named an honored member (in business) of the Princeton Premier, a registry containing some of the foremost authorities and well-known leaders in business. News of Niroomand's latest honor in international business came via the 30-Jan-08 press release inserted below:

(February 29, 2008) “Puffery” Part I of a Look Back on Farhang Niroomand’s BIE Incubator On 8 February 2008, reporters at USMNEWS.NET received a response from the U.S. Department of Education’s Maria-Teresa Cueva to a request, through 5 U.S.C. § 552 – The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) – for documentation regarding former CoB Associate Dean, Farhang Niroomand’s, application for a Business and International Education (BIE) grant.

(February 29, 2008) 31st & Pearl "Successful Solidification" In the recent freelance report entitled .Puffery. that appeared on this website on 28 February 2008, we saw how former CoB Associate Dean, Farhang Niroomand, told officials at the United States Department of Education that , through his .untiring. efforts, he (Niroomand) invented the CoB.

(March 2, 2008) CoB at a Crossroads PART 4 "I Don't Have a Dog in this Fight" The CoB's new Dean will have many obstacles to face on Day 1. One of them will be dealing with the fact that any oversight over the CoB's faculty evaluation process was killed in December of 2006, when CoB management professors, Stephen Bushardt and David Duhon, put a motion on the floor at the CoB's Fall 2006 faculty meeting that eliminated the traditional executive team conference that established each faculty's rating in teaching, research and service. Under the Bushardt-Duhon plan, individual faculty ratings are decided by department heads, without consultation with the other department heads or the Associate Dean.