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(June 28, 2011) If Presentations before Peers at Academic Meetings Predict the Future Quality of Faculty Publications USM’s School of Accountancy Looks to Continue to be an Embarrassment The School of Accountancy Mission Statement proclaims: “School of Accountancy faculty are actively engaged in scholarly, professional and pedagogical research to extend the knowledge boundaries of the accounting discipline while maintaining currency of their academic/professional qualifications as well as the School’s curriculum.”
(June 30, 2011) Recommendations To Improve Quality of Faculty Publications School of Accountancy, Unversity of Southern Mississippi Future success of publishing research in quality journals is predicted by the quality of faculty presentations and the quality of the academic meetings faculty attend. Previous reports reviewed Director Skip Hughes’ and School of Accountancy’s continuing failure to do quality research.
(June 30, 2011) Dear usmnews.net, One of the hot topics around the CoB has been your new series on research in the School of Accountancy. The most popular question is “what research?” I actually heard someone say that “research” and “School of Accountancy” are oxymorons.
(July 6, 2011) Lost Horizons In June 2008, Mary Morgan Anderson claimed an Accounting Horizons publication for her vita. Under the CoB rankings, Accounting Horizons is an A-level pub.
(July 8, 2011) Mary Morgan Anderson What is the Quality of Her Research? To Apply a Director Hughes’ Evaluation Criterion: Is She “Smokin’ Dope?” Director Hughes told me “things are going to change around here [University of Southern Mississippi School of Accountancy].” He made this solemn promise in a discussion of research he expected faculty to accomplish now that he was Director of the School of Accountancy. He wasn’t the first new director to make such pledge. I advised Hughes that he would have to change faculty who for decades published only in low quality journals. I also wished him luck.
(August 17, 2011) Updated, The CoB's Brain Drain, 2003-Present -- Part 3 An Illustrated History There is little argument with the notion that the College of Business at USM has been severely diminished by the faculty flight that has occurred since former CoB dean, Harold Doty, assumed the reins of management. Doty's tenure began in 2003, when he was hired by former USM President, Shelby Thames, to lead the newly reorganized College of Business & Economic Development.
(October 12, 2011) The CoB Catalogue, 2010 The “CoB Catalogue, 2010” provides USMNEWS.net readers with a look at the typical level of scholarly output in the CoB during a given year. The space below presents, through illustrations for easy examination, the scholarship of 49 CoB faculty for 2010.
(February 14, 2012) The CoB's Brain Drain Compilation, 2003-Present An Illustrated Account There is little argument with the notion that the College of Business at USM has been severely diminished by the faculty flight that has occurred since former CoB dean, Harold Doty, assumed the reins of management. Doty's tenure began in 2003, when he was hired by former USM President, Shelby Thames, to lead the newly reorganized College of Business & Economic Development.