ARTICLES CONCERNING
FACULTY ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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(August 27, 2007) Faculty Arrivals and Departures More New Faces in Fashion Merchandising and Tourism Management
The faculty depletion in tourism management has seemingly turned around with the recent additions of Babu George and David Paster. George comes to USM’s College of Business from the School of Management at Pondicherry University in India. According to sources, TM Chair Tony Henthorne and George have co-authored various research projects, one of which was recently published in the International Journal of Social Economics.
(October 20, 2008) 31st & Pearl Friends Win Benefits The recent story about new CoB Professor of Practice Michael J. Gade highlights a disturbing trend in the CoB's hiring practices in recent years. That practice concerns the hiring of friends and associates of other relatively recent CoB hires, and we got a good glimpse of what was to come with it when, shortly after the ECO hired Akbar Marvasti, EFIB chair George Carter and former CoB dean Harold Doty pulled Marvasti's friend Ray Canterbery out of retirement to (mysteriously) join the CoB as a scholar-in-]residence.