http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070401/OPINION01/704010304

Saunders brings strong résumé to USM

...And those challenges are enormous.

Among the immediate ones she would face is the uneasiness among faculty that has developed and been exacerbated over the past several years. Under outgoing President Shelby Thames, the faculty has often felt isolated, shut out and underappreciated.

That translates into an undervaluing of the very people who drive the academic component of the university....