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From CoBaT Cave to Man Cave Harold Doty’s Transformation of UT-T’s Business College The faculty news bureau at USMNEWS.net recently re-examined one of the reports linked to the top of each installment in the new Special Report Series on Karen St. John’s lawsuit against the University of Texas-Tyler.

Doty’s ‘Tyler Pride’ A Guest Column by C. Anna Hall Testimonials housed in USMNEWS.net’s library humorously recount how business faculty at USM described, during the 2003-07 reign of CoB dean Harold Doty, how Doty behaved as a b-school’s new dean.

Special Report Series Smith County Court is Now in Session Former CoB Dean in Hot Water Once Again PART 10 As the excerpted portion of St. John’s complaint above points out, this installment in the series picks up on 4-March-2011, after the postal address “rope-a-dope” game played by officials at UT-T in order to delay St. John’s receipt of the rules for an appeal of her employment termination.Click here for Part I; Part II; Part III ; Part IV; Part V; Part VI; Part VII; Part VIII; Part IX (Note: University of Texas-Tyler has denied the allegations of the Complaint.)

The ‘Lurking’ President It’s Time for Sports All of the Time with Martha D. Saunders USM president Martha Saunders’ latest six Tweets, all spanning from 4-Sept-2011 to 8-Oct-2011, are depicted below.

The CoB Catalogue, 2010 The “CoB Catalogue, 2010” provides USMNEWS.net readers with a look at the typical level of scholarly output in the CoB during a given year. The space below presents, through illustrations for easy examination, the scholarship of 49 CoB faculty for 2010.

Lee Gore "Every professor's first name is 'Plaintiff'" Even though Lee Gore was replaced as university counsel about a year ago, he remained on the university payroll for many months. As with many unwanted faculty, he remained on the payroll while his replacement served as university counsel. Not too surprisingly, Gore began looking to become university counsel somewhere even before his non-salaried non-job came to an end.

. . . Vienna Waits for You FARHANG NIROOMAND’S FALL 2010 TRIP TO THE USDE New documents coming into USMNEWS.net’s travel reports bureau indicate that Farhang Niroomand, the former CoB associate dean who now serves as the top man in the University of Houston – Victoria’s business school, made another trip to the U.S. Department of Education in Oct/Nov-2010. The first page of documents related to this 2010 trip shows just how complicated Niroomand’s travel can get: