ARTICLES CONCERNING
MARTHA D. SAUNDERS, PRESIDENT
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

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(February 17, 2010) A Change in Opinion A report in the February 17, 2010 Chronicle of Higher Education reports a troubling change in public opinion directed at colleges and universities.

(February 18, 2010) “A Horribly Bungled Administrative Disaster” The reporters and readers of usmnews.net are watching for news concerning Dr. Howard Ross’ litigation against UW-Whitewater and Martha Saunders. The race discrimination suit, scheduled to begin trial on February 8, 2010, arose out of Dr. Ross’ demotion.

(February 19, 2010) 31st & Pearl "Campus Dialogues"? Reading the republished editorial Saunders-Amodeo Relationship Should be Examined, called for usmnews.net to revisit that relationship. After all, who had heard about "Campus Dialogues" or "Core Dialogues" since - well since January 2008?

(February 21, 2010) Dear USMNEWS.NET: Thanks for the reminder about Mona Amodeo, idgroup and President Saunders. I took a took at the weblinks in your most recent editorial and noticed something interesting. According to idgroup’s webpage, it did some work for University of Wisconsin- Whitewater. (That work is less prominently mentioned than its ongoing relationship with Dr. Saunders at USM.) idgroup doesn’t say that Dr. Saunders hired Mona Amodeo at UW-W, but that seems to be the inescapable conclusion

(February 22, 2010) Worth the Price? Usmnews.net reporters reached out to colleagues from University of Wisconsin�-Whitewater to gather information concerning the Saunders, Amodeo, idgroup connection. In response, we received the attached document that sources claim to have cost the taxpayers of Wisconsin in the $40,000 range.

(February 22, 2010) “Strategic Planning” One of the things that revisiting President Saunders’ early days as president has encouraged usmnews.net reporters to review is what she has actually accomplished. Dr. Saunders has announced many initiatives with great fanfare, but what have those initiatives accomplished?

(February 24, 2010) Questions to Dr. Saunders After USMNEWS.NET reporters reached out to colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, some interesting claims began to emerge and reporters began to receive information concerning Dr. Saunders’ alleged (mis)use of state funds during her brief tenure as Chancellor of UW-W.