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(February 8, 2009) Race to the Bottom A Closer Look at the Career Paths of Harold Doty and Farhang Niroomand CoB professors Harold Doty and Farhang Niroomand, the former CoB dean (2003-07) and former CoB associate dean (1998-2007), respectively, have taken different paths to get where they are today.

(March 11, 2009) GH Chatter Speaking of Farhang Niroomand, there has been some talk that UH at Victoria's hiring process was worse than shabby, and many of the business faculty there are freaking out about how he might rule their business school.

(March 22, 2009) 31st & Pearl Knee-ro-mand The 14-Jan-09 University of Houston --Victoria press release announcing the School of Business. new dean, former CoB associate dean Farhang Niroomand, came with a pronunciation guide to the soon-to-be- former-CoBer's surname. The pronunciation guide -- "Knee-roo-mand". Unfortunately for UH-V business faculty, that's about all the press release contained, at least as far as things of value go.

(March 22, 2009) Our Most Talented Colleagues Unique A-Level Hits of Current & Former CoB Faculty – Economics In May of 2007, untenured assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia, a first-year CoB faculty who, to use EFIB chairman George Carter's term, had just been "canned" by the University of Alabama, took the floor at the end of the CoB's spring 2007 convocation. He then proceeded to blast the USMNEWS.net editor and various CoB faculty for speaking out against the CoB's administration in a way Dakhlia felt encouraged his (Dakhlia's) most talented colleagues to leave USM. Of course, Dakhlia wasn't speaking out in support of those CoB faculty who had been abused by CoB administrators, as management professor Sharon Topping had spoken for only minutes before Dakhlia was handed the rostrum by then-interim CoB dean Alvin Williams. The faculty Topping referred to were beginning to leave the CoB as well by spring of 2007. Dakhlia, however, was, according to sources, speaking on behalf of CoBers (and Dakhlia's friends) like Zaher Hallab (tourism management) and Akbar Marvasti (economics), CoB administrators' favorites who were either leaving the CoB at that time or expressing a desire to do so.

(April 17, 2009) Abuse of Staff? A Look Back at CoB History on the Matter The recent advice to CoB dean Lance Nail entitled Wrong Message, Wrong Mode, Wrong Moment, Wrong Minister regarding the so-called Sonia Gaines-Littles episode alludes to the possibility that the undercurrent of animus towards CoB faculty in Gaines-Littles' e-mail stems from some harm done by past faculty abuse(s) of CoB staff. Assuming for the moment that such harm is real, a look back at CoB history, and on a staffer-by-staffer basis, reveals that the abuses almost always stem from CoB administration sources.