ARTICLES CONCERNING
DR. ROBERT SMITH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING
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(May 24, 2007) Money, Money, Money, Money Consulting and Paid Service in USM’s College of Business This report examines the consulting and paid service that faculty in the CoB are performing, at least according their own SEDONA files (as of May 2007). As you will see below, some of the CoB’s least research-active faculty are engaging in significant amounts of consulting and paid service, all of which enhances their (in some cases bloated) USM salaries. At the bottom of each consulting/paid service bio below, we provide salary data for 2006-07 along with a projected salary for 2007-08. Enjoy.
(June 1, 2007) Double and Triple Counting in Accounting What the SEDONA Records of Clark, Jordan and Smith Reveal A recent trip into the stacks of SEDONA vitae obtained by USMNEWS.NET (via a Mississippi Open Records Act request in spring 2007) revealed some interesting practices in the CoB’s accounting area. Below we have inserted an excerpt from the scholarly activity section of Robert Smith’s (associate professor of accounting) SEDONA vita.
(August 2, 2007) An Interesting Thought for 2007-2008 If I were a CoB junior in 2007-2008, I would take the following courses and very possibly have the following instructors:
(April 24, 2008) CoB News, 24 April 2008 Google Scholar Citations Sluggers The Google Scholars citations analyses here at USMNEWS.NET usually make for some of our more popular reports. For those of you who have recently ventured out into GS-land, you may have noticed that Google has been working on implementing an upgrade to that engine. No group is more excited about that than USMNEWS.NET’s reporters. While we await that, there are some additional elements of research quality in the CoB to consider.
(October 22, 2008) Carter's Mercenaries A Look at How George Carter's Politics May Ruin the Nail Administration Have no doubts about it, EFIB chairman George Carter is on a mission to bring down the new Lance Nail administration of USM's College of Business. And, with the hiring and firing and "friendraising" efforts Carter has made over the past two decades, he may indeed pull it off before it is all over. This column is Part 3 in a three-part series of opinion pieces that will attempt to explain just how Carter may pull off the coup that some in the CoB are hoping for and others are nervous about.