MARTHA D. SAUNDERS, PRESIDENT
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
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(October 8, 2007) CoB News, 3 October 2007 Core Dialogues As CoB faculty await more information about how new
USM President Martha Saunders feels about the business school, sources continue to report to USMNEWS.NET that the
CoB sits at the bottom of her list of priorities. Little is known at this time about what her top priorities are. We do,
however, have some information about what has piqued Saunders’ interest from the Core Dialogues process that
Saunders kicked-off at the Fall 2007 USM Convocation. Here’s word from her latest blog:
(October 8, 2007) Special Report Memo to Martha, Part I A Look at Alvin Williams’ Role in the Mobbing of Aug-07
Reporters at usmnews.net have received a copy of a memo sent by Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams to USM President
Martha Saunders, through Interim Provost Bobby Middlebrooks, asking Saunders to terminate the employment (at USM)
of USMNEWS.NET editor and accounting professor, Marc DePree. Williams’ letter is dated 21 August 2007, the same day
that Saunders penned a letter to DePree advising DePree that he was being relieved of his teaching and services
responsibilities to USM during the fall 2007 semester.
(October 9, 2007) Special Report Memo to Martha, Part II A Look at Alvin Williams’ Role in the Mobbing of Aug-07
Reporters at usmnews.net have received a copy of a memo sent by Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams to USM President
Martha Saunders, through Interim Provost Bobby Middlebrooks, asking Saunders to terminate the employment (at
USM) of USMNEWS.NET editor and accounting professor, Marc DePree. Williams’ memo is dated 21 August 2007, the
same day that Saunders penned a letter to DePree advising DePree that he was being relieved of his teaching and
services responsibilities to USM during the fall 2007 semester. Part II in this Special Report series investigation picks up
where Part I concluded, with paragraph 2 of page 2 of Williams’ memo to Saunders.
(October 10, 2007) Once Upon a Time The Fanciful Expressions of Interim SAIS Director Steven Jackson The Aug-07
mobbing of USMNEWS.NET editor, Marc DePree, has been the subject of a number of reports here at USMNEWS.NET
Parts I and II of "Memo to Martha" explain in graphic detail the misrepresentations and mischaracterizations in Interim
CoB Dean Alvin Williams' 21-Aug-07 memo to USM President Martha Saunders requesting that Saunders terminate the
employment of DePree, a professor of accounting at USM.
(October 22, 2007) Ethics Update, October 2007 There are a number of interesting stories on the ethics front in the CoB to
update USMNEWS.NET readers on. Let’s get started.