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(April 3, 2007) Heroes and Storytellers In a recent usmnews.net report, readers were treated to some of Management Professor Stephen Bushardt’s views on rewards, specifically the Hero/Storyteller Culture. This columnist began thinking about exactly who the Heroes and Storytellers currently are in the CoB and who might be next. Remember that Heroes aren’t really heroes; they are simply the individuals who are the poster children for how the corrupt Bushardtian Establishment wants things done. As a word of note, there is a third category added – Hybrid – that denotes individuals who are used in different situations at different times. What follows is a best guess list for each category.

(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.

(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.

(September 8, 2008) Christmas in August for Stanley J. Clark CoB Accountant Receives "Secret Raise" of $7,500 It turns out the rumors reported in the 8-Sept-08 installment of GH Chatter were true after all. A review of USM's 2008-09 Budget Book reveals that CoB accounting professor, Stanley Clark, was on the receiving end of a $7,500/year raise. That "secret raise" was added to Clark's 2007-08 base of $104,625, so that Clark's new 9-month salary comes to $112,125. Clark's raise also takes his salary to about $2,000 more than that of another CoB accounting professor, Charles Jordan.

(December 22, 2008) Top Stories of 2008 by Duane Cobb 5. New Journal Rankings -- 4. Clark Gets Secret Raise -- What began as a story in the GH Chatter series turned out to be true once the 2008-09 USM Budget Book was examined -- accounting professor Stanley Clark had gotten a secret raise in the amount of $7,500 during the final days of the interim administration of Alvin Williams (2007-08).