GWENDOLYN PATE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTANCY
AND UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS DIRECTOR
(November 1, 2008) BREAKING NEWS Pate, Zantow Named New Assistant Deans HATTIESBURG -- After a series of
interviews with internal candidates, new CoB dean Lance Nail recently announced that associate professor of
accounting Gwen Pate and associate professor of management Kenneth Zantow will assume the new duties of
assistant dean in the CoB. Pate essentially continues her current administrative duties in Hattiesburg, which include
oversight of undergraduate academic services. Zantow now represents the CoB-GC and will administer graduate
academic services for the CoB.
(December 16, 2008) Dear Santa: I have been so good this year that I can hardly believe it. I really do not know what to
ask for because I have been given so much this year. I have this great job where I walk around and talk to everyone and
get paid for it. But even better, I was given a new job that I get to do that and get even more money for it so work is good.
At home, I get to see my son grow up; I am happy those fears were wrong. No worries as long as “you know who” has to
stay away from us.
(March 2, 2009) Two Months On Two months ago, Dean Nail named Gwen Pate and Ken Zantow to be new Assistant
Deans in the CoB. From reports set to and gathered by usmnews.net, here is a status report:
(March 9, 2009) Ghastly Service Ghosts A LOOK AT FALL 2008 SERVICE DERELICTION IN THE COB Faculty in the
CoB’s management and marketing department (MGT & MKT) have, on occasion, referred to CoB economics professor
Mark Klinedinst as “the ghost.” They do so because Klinedinst has spent much of his tenure in USM’s CoB out of
USM’s CoB. Put simply – he has, over the past 20+ years, rarely been around Greene Hall (JAG). Had he been a stellar
researcher, such behavior could be excused. In Klinedinst’s case, however, there has not been a publication in an
indexed journal article since 1998, an oft-cited statistic in reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net.
(August 11, 2009) Special Report The GS Cites Trap An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials
Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have examined Google Scholar cites to research conducted by various CoB
faculty. As in past reports in this series, the data examined recently have been unadjusted GS cites. That is, there has
been no accounting for self-cites in the overall data. This report addresses that issue by subtracting self-cites from the
overall data, using a 6-Aug-09 GS cites search for ACC.