(March 12, 2009) Behind the 8 Eight Current CoB Faculty USM Doesn't Need to Lose by Duane Cobb As you can tell, I
like to rank CoB faculty against one scale or another from time to time (e.g., "the 5 best moves from the CoB," "the 5
worst moves from the CoB," etc.). I'm often told that my CoB faculty ranking essays are both controversial and
oft-requested by readers of USMNEWS.NET, and that I should provide more of them when possible. I am doing so
again here, and this time my ranking of "the eight (8) current CoB faculty USM doesn't need to lose" is probably no less
controversial than past topics.
DR. SHARON TOPPING, PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT
For more articles and editorials concerning Dr. Topping, please click here.
(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.