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(September 24, 2008) Special Report Michael Wittmann Orders Up a "Clark Special" An Inve stigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain To hear sources describe it, the ridiculousness that is USM's College of Business these days is beyond measure. That sentiment received a major boost recently when it was discovered that the CoB sought, and has received, the approval of the Mississippi IHL to set up a Center for Healthcare Marketing and Sales. As the excerpt from page 46 of the IHL's 17/18-Sept-08 meeting's consent agenda shows, the CoB's CHMS will be a "limited scope center" that will "advance education, research, and practice in healthcare sales and marketing . . ."

(August 7, 2008) A Taste of How the CoB Works: Journal Classification One of the things USMNEWS.net has done over the past few years is to show just how politics in the CoB shapes just about everything that is done there. There is no better venue for doing that than the CoB's recent effort to classifiy journals across the various business disciplines. Politics affected that 2007-08 process from the jump. First, the CoB was being administered by an interim dean, Alvin Williams. Williams is certainly not known as a top-notch researcher, even by CoB standards. Thus, 2007-08 was not the proper time to re-classify business journals at USM.