(February 11, 2009) Special Report Name that Former CoBer An Investigative Report on CoB Faculty Research
Credentials The 6-Feb-09 update to the Special Report “Name-worthy” reminds USMNEWS.net readers that former
CoB associate professor of international business Len Trevino is now affiliated with Loyola University in New
Orleans. With his recent (Jan-09) move to LU, Trevino becomes the 10th former CoB faculty to have joined a named
business college/school since leaving the CoB in or after 2003.
CHARLES SAWYER, FORMER PROFESSOR OF
ECONOMICS, CURRENT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS,
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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(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. Of course, Dakhlia wasn't speaking out in support of those CoB faculty who had been
abused by CoB administrators, as management professor Sharon Topping had spoken for only minutes before
Dakhlia was handed the rostrum by then-interim CoB dean Alvin Williams. The faculty Topping referred to were
beginning to leave the CoB as well by spring of 2007. Dakhlia, however, was, according to sources, speaking on behalf
of CoBers (and Dakhlia's friends) like Zaher Hallab (tourism management) and Akbar Marvasti (economics), CoB
administrators' favorites who were either leaving the CoB at that time or expressing a desire to do so.