(May 12, 2009) Bullies & Playgrounds A Brief Scorecard of Doty-Niroomand Envy Former CoB dean Harold Doty has just become the new dean of the College of Business & Technology at the University of Texas – Tyler. Doty's former USM associate dean Farhang Niroomand is set to soon become the new dean of the School of Business at the University of Houston – Victoria. In a very real sense, these two former CoB administrators are embarking on a professional life in obscurity. Perhaps this puts it mildly, as Victoria and Tyler are not, by any stretch of the imagination, bastions of any sort in the U.S. higher education world. Still, the two former CoBers, thought by many to be "eaten up" with envy towards one-another, are heading off to differing circumstances, and the one coming out on top might not be the one many would guess.
FARHANG NIROOMAND, FORMER ASSOCIATE DEAN,
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, CURRENT DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON AT VICTORIA
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(May 15, 2009) The Parent Trap A Brief Scorecard of Doty-Niroomand Envy Though both Doty and Niroomand clearly made downward moves (spirals?) with regard to the position of their new professional homes relative to USM, Doty easily wins this round over Niroomand in the Doty-Niroomand envy game. In the grand scheme of things, the University of Texas – Tyler sits well above the University of Houston – Victoria, as least as far as USNWR 2009 is concerned.
(May 15, 2009) AACSB Soup A Brief Scorecard of Doty-Niroomand Envy At the outset, it looks like "advantage Doty." UT-T has 829 full-time business students, while UH-V has only 114. That is a difference, in UT-T's favor, of 715 students. UH-V does, however, close the UG student gap with a slightly larger number of part-timers at the UG level. It is at the graduate level that UH-V makes up most of the rest of the ground, with a full-time enrollment of 176 and a part-time enrollment of 690. AACSB International reports only 177 part-time grad students for UT-T.
(May 21, 2009) 31st & Pearl Envy Totals The recent three-part series comparing the new professional homes of former CoB administrators Harold Doty (former dean) and Farhang Niroomand (former associate dean) was enlightening for all. The first installment, Bullies & Playgrounds, reports data on the number of faculty in the business schools at University of Houston-Victoria, Niroomand's new home, and University of Texas-Tyler, Doty's new home.
(June 1, 2009) . . . Like Donkey Kong Imagine your associate dean off at his favorite academic meeting, pictured in a poncho and sombrero while holding a musket and standing two down from a similarly clad academic who is sitting on a donkey. For CoBers, this was not an imaginary setting, it was real (see photo below).
(June 8, 2009) Niroomand & Hudson Play a Little Game, While Doty Re-Works Message According to Thomas Doyle's 28-May-09 UH-V press release, Farhang Niroomand stepped aboard the School of Business Administration at the University of Houston – Victoria, as its new dean, on 1-June-09. That same release, entitled "Incoming dean leads by example in publishing papers before he starts," reveals a little game that Niroomand and UH-V president Tim Hudson, the former USM provost, a running on UH-V business faculty and UH-System administrators. It seems that Niroomand and Hudson are making a really big deal out of two published papers (by Niroomand and the CoB's Ed Nissan) on which Niroomand simply changed his institutional affiliation just prior to coming to UH-V on 1-June-09.