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(August 10, 2009) CoB News, 10 August 2009 The Bad Column The recent USMNEWS.net report, "Another Nail Pal in the Bad Column," reporting on CoB dean Lance Nail's decision to hire Brian Lee from UAB, indicated that Lee's Rate My Professors score was an underwhelming 2.9 (out of 5). This finding followed on the heels of reports that the previous Nail hire, Arthur Sorochinsky (also from UAB), has an even worse RMP score of only 2.6. CoB News is following up on these stories by listing the 10 worst RMP scores across current CoB faculty. The "bad column" data are shown in Table 1 below.

(August 11, 2009) Long Since Looking Back at Brain Drain Hits Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have highlighted some of the specifics of the $11-$12 million budget cuts being carried out now by the USM central administration. Preliminary reports like these place 5 tenured and 4 tenure-track faculty terminations in USM's CoB, with all of these coming via the termination of economics faculty through elimination of the CoB's economics programs. As reported, USMNEWS.net sources believe that most, if not all, of these ECO faculty will face some difficulty securing employment elsewhere, primarily as a result of gappy and relatively low quality research portfolios. Thus, their records do not reflect the quality of the records of several of the economists who departed the CoB between 2003 and the present. Some of these records rank among the best that the CoB has lost since 2003. The top 12 (incl. ties) of these are shown in Table 1 below.

(August 11, 2009) Brain Drain Highlights A Look at Recent Publication Successes of post-2003 Former CoBers A recent Internet search turned up some new results concerning journal publication successes of CoB faculty who departed the organization in or after 2003. These are synopsized below.

(August 12, 2009) breaking news . . Economics Programs Eliminated, ECO Faculty Cut Loose HATTIESBURG – Recent speculation by USMNEWS.net sources that the CoB's economics programs and faculty were in jeopardy from the plans to shave $2 million from the CoB's budget has come to fruition. The USM administration has now released detailed reports enumerating dozens of line-item budget cuts, and the CoB's economics programs and faculty are found amongst these.