ARTICLES CONCERNING
EVALUATION, TENURE AND FINANCIAL REWARDS
(October 3, 2008 ) GH Chatter News that the CoB-GC group is becoming more dysfunctional over time is spreading
around Greene Hall (and beyond) a bit. Word is that the “one CoB” theme of the past is further from true now than it
ever has been.All of the communiqués on ISI journal rankings coming from the dean’s office have some CoB faculty
speculating that the journal rankings developed by Sami Dakhlia’s journal ranking committee in 2007-08 will have
little to no importance in annual and T&P evaluations.
(October 21, 2008) CoB News, 21 October 2008 Post Tenure Review, Tenure & the CoB At its October 2008 monthly
meeting, the Mississippi IHL Board staff presented data to the Board on the implementation of Post Tenure Review
across Mississippi’s eight public universities. According to the information provided, Mississippi employs 1,841
tenured faculty across these eight public universities, and recently Post Tenure Review was triggered for 20 of these
individuals (representing 1.1%).
(November 6, 2008) Special Report “Shut Up and Drive!” An Investigative Report on the Use of CoB Faculty With budget
freezes and human resource strains at USM only beginning, it seems appropriate to examine which non-administration
faculty members at CoB-H are being told by CoB chairs to make the drive to one of the CoB’s Gulf Coast locales for
teaching purposes. This report examines data from fall semester 2008, which is shown below in Table 1.