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Dr VanNostren

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From CoB PR Rep Jan May:

Subject:Change in the Administration of the College of Business:Interim Dean Appointed
The Human Resources department of The University of Southern Mississippi confirmed today that Dr. Harold Doty and Dr. Farhang Niroomand have resigned from their administrative duties as Dean and Associate Dean, respectively, of the College of Business.  Both Doty and Niroomand will remain employed as tenured faculty and assume teaching responsibilities in fall 2007. Dr. Alvin Williams, professor of marketing, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Business by Dr. Jay Grimes, university provost.  Williams and Grimes are seeking faculty input regarding the appointment of the associate dean position. Williams is a 27-year faculty member who served as chair of the Department of Management and Marketing from July 1988 through August 2005. 

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Outside Observer

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Wow!

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patti

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Not to sound like a wet blanket or anything, but can anyone else verify this?

It isn't that I don't believe Dr. Van Nostren, but feel that we need other verification.

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Interest onlooker

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Wow indeed!   Why not wait and submit their resignations to Dr. Saunders?


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Dr VanNostren

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patti wrote:

Not to sound like a wet blanket or anything, but can anyone else verify this?

It isn't that I don't believe Dr. Van Nostren, but feel that we need other verification.
Call  Jan May at 601-266-5854.



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truth4usm/AH

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Well, I suppose ******* will be happy, at least. We'll see if the change in the structure of this board will cause those ***** COBers to come out of the woodwork again!

Truth

evileye



-- Edited by Web Master at 22:09, 2007-04-10

-- Edited by Web Master at 11:10, 2007-04-11

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Beck

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THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
Marketing and Public Relations
NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release                                                                                                                 Media Contact:

April 10, 2007                                                                          Jana Bryant

                                                                                                                                                            601.266.4497




Southern Miss Appoints Interim Dean for College of Business:

Dean and Associate Dean Resign

HATTIESBURG, Miss. - The Human Resources department of The University of Southern Mississippi confirmed today that Dr. Harold Doty and Dr. Farhang Niroomand have resigned from their administrative duties as dean and associate dean, respectively, of the College of Business.


Both Doty and Niroomand will remain employed as tenured faculty and will assume teaching responsibilities in fall 2007.

Dr. Alvin Williams has been appointed interim dean of the College of Business by Dr. Jay Grimes, university provost.  Williams will appoint the associate dean position.

Williams is a 27-year faculty member who has served as chair of the Department of Management and Marketing from July 1988 through August 2005.

The Southern Miss College of Business has approximately 75 full-time faculty members and 2,565 students majoring in 11 different business disciplines and is accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

View this article online at http://www.usm.edu/pr/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=618&Itemid=2.

About The University of Southern Mississippi

The University of Southern Mississippi, founded in 1910, is a comprehensive doctoral and research-extensive university fulfilling its mission of being a leading university in engaging and empowering individuals to transform lives and communities.  In a tradition of leadership for student development, Southern Miss is educating a 21st century work force providing intellectual capital, cultural enrichment and innovation to Mississippi and the world.  Southern Miss is located in Hattiesburg, Miss., with an additional campus and teaching and research sites on the Mississippi Gulf Coast; further information is found at www.usm.edu.

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LVN

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Don't they have their own board now?

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LVN

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Sorry, I was replying to Truth's comment above.

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Patti

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Thank you Beck, I appreciate that. 

Dr. Van Nostren, I would have called to verify, but didn't want to make a long distance phone call, but thank you for the number.

I have to wonder what this will mean for the COB, in terms of leadership and a feeling of 'belonging' for some of the professors and staffers there.  I am not familiar with Dr. Williams so I cannot speculate at all.

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truth4usmAH

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LVN wrote:

Don't they have their own board now?

 I don't know...do they?



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Reporter

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H.A.--USM College of Business deans resign; interim dean named today
Special to the American

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070410/NEWS01/70410011

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Patrick Sonnier

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The heads are rolling and Thames hasn't even left yet. I would expect to see a great deal more of this at the dean and departmental level. Dead men (and women) walking everywhere.



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Dr VanNostren

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I know that [removed by moderator] name has been bandied about already, but let's be real clear on a major point: Doty has been acting inappropriately for some time now. He has terminated a productive faculty member, threatened others with termination, allowed top scholars to be placed on 5 day per week/Hattiesburg & Coast/Day & Night teaching schedules, and has abridged one faculty member's freedom of speech as laid out in the Faculty Handbook.

Doty earned a lot of political goodwill across USM's campus when he stood against Grimes' letter. Since then, he has made bad decision after bad decision. He plays out personal vendettas daily.

The straw that broke the camel's back was the accreditation probation, in my opinion. After getting loads of resources to support the accreditation push, the visit team identified basic issues that were substantially lacking.

The CoB will be better off without Doty as dean.

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Not in COB

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Patrick Sonnier wrote:

The heads are rolling and Thames hasn't even left yet. I would expect to see a great deal more of this at the dean and departmental level. Dead men (and women) walking everywhere.


I'm hearing that this was voluntary, Thames not involved.  Anybody else hear that?

 



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ram

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Patti wrote:

...  I am not familiar with Dr. Williams so I cannot speculate at all.
I know him in the community, not at the university, but in my opinion, Alvin Williams is a class act.



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Southern Belle

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Dr. Alvin Williams is respected all over campus.

Voluntary? We also heard that Dr. Pierce's resignation was voluntary.

??????

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Curmudgeon

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Regardless of who was at fault for the problems of COB during the past few years, things have been difficult for most members of the college. Perhaps everyone is better off with this change and Dr. Saunders is spared a difficult decision. This appears to be yet another unpleasant result of Thames' ill-considered reorganization plan.

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Dr VanNostren

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As much as Doty and Niroomand want this to seem voluntary, I don't think you can find many in the CoB who think it really was. You'll find even fewer who are sorry to see Doty go.

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Constant Confusion

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I dont think it was voluntary. I am just surprised that he didnt put up much of a fight.

However, I do feel that Alvin Williams will be a positive influence for the COB

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Southern Belle

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If anyone is interested in the COB website, it is.  {removed by moderator} Funny thing, there is nothing on there about the recent resignation of the deans. Someone is falling down on their job.

SFT reorganized the colleges from nine to five when he took office. As of 04/10/2007 at 10:40 a.m., USM has five college and three interim deans.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmconfused

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V. Ridian

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That is NOT the CoB website.  That is one faculty member's radical and often conspiracy-seeking views on the department.


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donedoneit

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ram wrote:

Patti wrote: ...  I am not familiar with Dr. Williams so I cannot speculate at all.I know him in the community, not at the university, but in my opinion, Alvin Williams is a class act.


I agree ram. Alvin Williams is one of the most decent folk you will ever meet. USM/COB has been blessed to have him all these years. Great choice as interim. Probably would not be interested in taking role on full-time though.



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Dr VanNostren

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V. Ridian wrote:

That is NOT the CoB website. That is one faculty member's radical and often conspiracy-seeking views on the department.

The views represented are of more than one faculty member and represent opinions and facts about the CoB as a whole. Those who want to believe that Doty was a good dean are fooling themselves and/or are ignorant with regard to the actual day to day goings on in the CoB.
[removed by moderator] website does what few at USM want done -- it exposes the ways that administrators reward their cronies and punish those who disagree. The basis of a university is discussion and discourse, and there was room for neither under Doty's watch.

This is a red-leter day for those who have suffered for four years under Doty.


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V. Ridian

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Dr VanNostren wrote:
****** website does what few at USM want done -- it exposes the ways that administrators reward their cronies and punish those who disagree. The basis of a university is discussion and discourse, and there was room for neither under Doty's watch.

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I mean, come on.


Are you really so blind as to not see that both an administrator AND his supervisor "resigning" at the same time point strongly to something that the administrator did that the supervisor did nothing to control?

If this were all about Doty and his managerial style, why would Niroomand also be "resigning."



-- Edited by Web Master at 19:35, 2007-04-10

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hap

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Doty is gone and that is all that matters.  Niroomand is gone and that is a bonus.  Grimes and Thames stirred the pot and served Niroomand a stinking stew.

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Not in COB

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They're baaaaack!!

hmm

Yes, God help us. -- Moderator

-- Edited by Web Master at 22:45, 2007-04-10

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Coastliner

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I hope there is a good audit of the booze account.

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Godless Liberal

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Dear Ridian:This sentence in your post was most interesting:"Are you really so blind as to not see that both an administrator AND his supervisor "resigning" at the same time point strongly to something that the administrator did that the supervisor did nothing to control?"If true, this would be a first. We have had administrators on campus before who have acted in ways that should have sent them packing back to their first love, but their bosses have been unable or unwilling to contain them. Never been a problem for the powers-that-be before. If your take on the situation is accurate (and I have no evidence that it is), I would hope the trangression by the Associate Dean that the Dean was unable or unwilling to control was so severe that it truly posed an immediate and significant threat to the welfare of the campus community, and the evidence for this was unequivocal (I harken back to what this admin said about G&S). I also hope that Tom Meredith and Martha Saunders were in the loop on this one.   Sigh. Just another day at Camp Shelby.



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Dr VanNostren

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There are, of course, many issues at play here.

First, the CoB got a very negative review from its accrediting body. This is fact, though Doty and his administrative team have sought to spin it positively. Anyone who reads the documents (yes, they are available online at **** website -- **** had to FOIA them because Doty wouldn't disclose to his faculty the report in a professional manner) should see the major issues inherent: lack of faculty qualifications, poor research programs, and even a bad mission statement. These are not trivial issues, and Doty had over three years to get the college on the right track. He failed.

Second, the CoB culture is rotten to the core. There is a long-standing good-old-boy network system that trumps accomplishments: If you're a member of the club, you're going to get rewards. As more young faculty move in, there has been a struggle between those who want fair treatment and those who want to grab every dollar they can. Doty fostered this corrupt system, favoring favoritism over accomplishments and yes men over scholars.

Third, and most troubling, Doty has made many decisions that are driven by the personal rather than the professional. He recently fired a junior faculty member with a clearly tenurable record one year short of his tenure run. Why? Doty didn't like him. Doty engineered and/or allowed vendettas against those he didn't personally like. Isn't that the way to run a good college?

There will be those who wanted Doty to stay. Those individuals are the ones who were profiting from Doty's inexperience as dean and [potential slander removed.] The CoB is better off without Doty acting as anchor.

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