(May 14, 2010) When is the School of Accountancy’s G5 Coming? A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler CoB dean Lance Nail is throwing around so much money these days, particularly to the benefit of the School of Accountancy, one can’t help but wonder when the SoA’s Gulfstream V is going to be delivered. After all, if USM president Martha Saunders gets to have an airplane, why can’t the big dogs over in USM’s b-school have one?

ARTICLES CONCERNING
GWENDOLYN PATE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTANCY
AND UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS DIRECTOR

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(August 22, 2011) Special Report: Gwendolyn Pate Plus Eight -- CoB’s Focus on Administration Continues What USM provost Robert Lyman refers to as “administrative bloat” continues to haunt both USM and its b-school. The recent story about Joseph Peyrefitte’s promotion to senior associate dean of the CoB indicates that a ratcheting up of administration in the b-school is almost surely around the corner.

(September 16, 2011) Lance Nail + Gwen Pate = Regression Analysis? Interesting Fall 2011 Course Offering A recent check of the USM Class Schedule Guide for fall 2011 revealed an interesting business administration course offering. That offering is contained in the insert below:

(December 8, 2011) They Owe It to the World It is sad to report another shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. However, it is time that the School of Accountancy comes to the assistance of Virginia Tech and other universities. School of Accountancy faculty, including Patricia Munn, Steven Jackson, Gwen Pate, and Mary Anderson, claim they can predict who is dangerous, can snap, and shoot people. This is wonderful! Experienced forensic psychiatrists admit that they cannot make such predictions. Yet these accounting faculty claim they can.