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(August 10, 2007) 1979 A Look Back at the CoB’s AACSB Application of 30 Years Ago USMNEWS.NET has obtained a copy of the USM College of Business Administration’s AACSB Accreditation Application of 1979. Many current CoB faculty are comparing the organization today to the one of the Joe Greene era, and this document allows for a serious assessment of where USM’s College of Business stands today. This installment (#2) shows, as other reports here at USMNEWS.NET have, how CoB administrators sometimes create an alternate version of reality in order to promote the interests and desires of certain faculty favorites. As previewed in installment #1 in this series, this report deals with the treatment of economics professor Edward Nissan.

(August 31, 2007) Beck and Call The Impending Battle in EFIB over George Carter’s Attention As one of three departments in USM’s College of Business, the Department of Economics, Finance and International Business (EFIB) is chaired by George Carter (professor of economics). The EFIB’s office complex is located in Joseph Greene Hall, Suite 309, which is divided into six separate areas. The EFIB complex is depicted in the box below:

(September 4, 2007) Ethics Update, Sept-07 "Our tradition of excellence continues to reinforce our commitment to . . . a sense of ethical behavior." Alvin J. Williams, Interim Dean, USM College of Business Administration, 2007

(November 1, 2007) Special Report Will USM Earn any Money from Carter’s Fall ’07 Overload? An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain A number of reports here at usmnews.net have revealed that EFIB chair George Carter has been providing teaching overloads to various EFIB faculty as a way of boosting their annual pay and retirement benefits. That “program” has been referred to as Carter’s Clinical Teaching Professorships Program, and it represents what appears to be the unauthorized (at least at levels above CoB Dean) use by Carter of faculty resources (time, etc.) in teaching that were originally allocated instead to perform research and service functions. Of course, one of the primary beneficiaries of this clinical teaching professorship program is Carter himself, and his use of it is particularly egregious given that his employment as a CoB administrator entitles him to a 6-hour base teaching load.

(January 29, 2009) CoB News, 28 January 2008 Jackson’s Professional Judgment? Carter’s Regression Obsession CoB faculty got back to campus for Spring semester 2008 to learn that the Undergraduate Programs Committee had approved a new 1-hour course covering the basics of regression. Back in the early 1990s, the CoB offered a two-semester sequence in UG statistics – BA 301 and BA 302. Both of these were 3-hour courses, and the second of the two covered regression analysis, along with other quan