(February 5, 2009) Things Stay the Same, Things Stay the Same Though SAIS director Steven Jackson and accounting
professor Roderick Posey may now be touting their Spring/Summer 2008 publication in the Journal of Business &
Economic Perspectives, USMNEWS.net has learned that the accomplishment is weakened by factors other than the
relative obscurity of the journal itself. The insert below shows that three of the CoB's accountants, including Jackson,
serve on the JBEP's editorial review board.
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(February 8, 2009) CoB Human Resources Update February, 2009 A study of more than 2,500 top business scholars
worldwide is circulating that indicates that former CoB associate professor of international business Len Trevino sits
at the 62nd percentile (among the top 2,500 or so) in terms of points scored for international business-related
publications in the two dozen top journals in the business fields (i.e., accounting, finance, information systems,
international business, management, and marketing).
(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.