DR. SEAN SALTER,
FORMER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FINANCE
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(August 1, 2007) Breaking News Salter Resigns from EFIB HATTIESBURG – Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that assistant professor of finance Sean Salter has resigned his position in the EFIB and has taken a similar position at Middle Tennessee State University. Salter's surprising departure marks the second time in the past 12 months that an assistant professor of finance has resigned in late July/early August. In 2006, Larry Eisenberg surprisingly resigned at a similar time. Eisenberg is currently on staff at New Jersey Institute of Technology, the 124th-ranked university in the U.S. (USNWR America's Best Colleges 2007).
(August 2, 2007) Will the Bleeding Stop? A Look at the Departure of Sean Salter The recent breaking news story about the impending departure of assistant professor of finance Sean Salter represents the final nail in the coffin of the CoB’s real estate program. With Salter’s departure, we have put together another update of the brain drain list that has been building since the CoB’s AACSB Peer Review Team left Hattiesburg in February of 2007. In the last installment, we reported on the loss of Zaher Hallab, associate professor of tourism management. With Hallab’s departure, the number of refereed journal articles that have left the CoB since Feb-07 rose to 106.
(August 2, 2007) 31st & Pearl FINito With the departure of Sean Salter, and with him the CoB's real estate program, the finance unit's final chapter appears be in press. What has transpired along the southern corridors of Greene Hall over the past 2 years goes to show, once again, that what takes years to build can be brought down virtually over night.
(August 2, 2007) Too Late More Information on the Departure of Sean Salter Information on the departure of former CoB assistant professor of finance Sean Salter continues to pour into USMNEWS.NET offices. This report covers two new items.
(September 6, 2007) Effects of Real Estate Program’s Demise Already Showing “Wreck Coming Up in the Curve Ahead” “Sounds like the [Hattiesburg] realtors are living in a fantasy world . . .” tcmullic, 2007 If you had a chance to visit the 6-Sept-07 issue of The Hattiesburg American you couldn’t help but notice the article by staff writer Emma James entitled “Housing market is ‘balanced,’ realtors say.” For convenience, a copy of that article is inserted below:
(July 18, 2008) Special Report Beachfront Value An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials The intrigue surrounding the real estate program in USM's business school is one that would make for a good backdrop to a John Grisham novel. It begins with the late Charles Cartee, a former professor of real estate at USM who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the Parham Bridges Real Estate Professorship. For a brief period, at least, Cartee held that professorship. After that, earnings from the PBRE endowment disappeared, at least as far as the relevant CoB faculty were concerned.