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Date: Feb 19, 2005

RE: RE: USM: Progress Report

Date: Feb 19, 2005

I find that not having a USM Golf Course has helped me find other interests.

Date: Feb 19, 2005

No new books in the library.... I really hate worrying about having to read new books. Ick!

Date: Feb 19, 2005

Most of the faculty haven't left..........................yet.

Date: Feb 19, 2005

USM is still accredited by SACS. Somebody there must see that the school is doing something right.

Date: Feb 19, 2005

You don't seem to understand what "probation" means.

Date: Feb 19, 2005

And, the NCATE visit has been put off - how smart of us to really single ourselves out to NCATE. This is something to be happy about. NCATE hasn't slammed us yet. Kewl.

Date: Feb 19, 2005

USM is much more "flexible" than previously. Things get done faster. Sometimes major academic decisions seem to get done so fast that even the faculty and deans don't know about them before they are announced. Efficiency is our middle name.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

Remember all the time we used to have to spend on promotion/tenure committees, and how difficult it often was to make those decisions? Well now we have the "double secret promotion" system that allows everybody more time for wurl' class economic development activities, like training our students to be telemarketers. Oooh I love progress!

Date: Feb 20, 2005

Faculty are really beefing up their CVs, publishing more than ever in their attempts to leave town.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

Another evidence of progress during the past two years: A hugh salary savings. The salary savings created by the departure of experienced senior faculty members can now be used to hire new inexperienced Ph.D.'s to do the SACS preparation.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

i know this is not the purpose of this thread, but given salary compression at USM there hasn't been a lot of salary savings. i know one department where assistant profs are coming in at more than associate profs.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

I love this thread! Thank you. My contribution:

USM had the vision to buy Garden Park Hosptial. This helps both IHL and Ole Miss. If the Ole Miss medical school fails, USM will come to the aid of IHL by moving the medical school to the coast. USM's vision has provided a contingency plan for our beloved IHL, and USM will be able to purchase all the equipment from Ole Miss, therefore, keeping our state funds in Mississippi.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

One of the most positive changes around here is that we have our own expert limerick writers on this message board. Therefore, we no longer need to hire those high-paid stuffy scholars who study dull things like John Donne and Shakespeare. Let Ole Miss and Texas A&M teach them things. Besides, a 5-line limerick carries a much higher level of student interest than does a poem written in cryptic Olde English or something. Proof that the limerick trumps John Donne in student interest: you don't see anything by John Donne written on the walls of a bathroom stall.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

We've stepped up our campus recycling efforts by shredding 17,000 brochures that contained plagarized material.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

Ask Ms. Mentor

Question: "Professor Dork" has been lying about himself in published columns, claiming he's much more popular, sincere, and generous than I know him to be. How can I choose between roaring laughter and vomiting bile?

Answer: Don't.

http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/advice/mentor.htm

Date: Feb 20, 2005

Oh, Ms Mentor!! Thank you for the link to this column. She was wonderful -- I just spent half an hour reading her past columns. Funny, funny, funny (and helpful.)

Date: Feb 20, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: 1/USMTTT
"We've stepped up our campus recycling efforts by shredding 17,000 brochures that contained plagarized material."

I love this thread!

Amy Young

Date: Feb 20, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Amy Young
" I love this thread! Amy Young"

Amy, isn't AAUP membership at an all time high? SFT has been a great recruiter for AAUP! :biggrin:

Date: Feb 20, 2005

Has anybody calculated the "cost-benefit ratio" yet? Where is Dr. MaderMath Revisited when we need him/her/it?

Date: Feb 20, 2005

USM now offers more "oportunities for travel" than it previously offered. Hudson move from Hattiesburg to the Coast and then back to Hattiesburg? Grimes make a similar move I believe. USM position advertisements should carry the notation OPPORTUNITY FOR TRAVEL.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

USM is now much closer to the state attorney general's office and also with Kim Chaze. It even brought Judge Cooley to town.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

Lots more gravel in the student parking lots.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

There are fewer complaints about the feral cats. Many of those felines seem to have disappeared rather mysteriously.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

The sushi on campus is inexpensive

Date: Feb 20, 2005

I think we have all learned more. Each time that a poster uses a term that I don't understand or points out a spelling/grammar mistake, I know that I look it up. Better than a word-a-day calendar! I also read more newspapers and journals than I used to!

Date: Feb 20, 2005

The Gulf Park campus will not have to host the international John Donne Society for the 20th year and put up with all those scholars from all over the world. Let the Cajuns at LSU deal with those wild and crazy guys and girls.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

USM has instilled in many current and former faculty members a deep and abiding respect for their own alma mater.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

Fewer complaints and less grumbling about former employers we had before coming to USM.

Date: Feb 20, 2005

The Summer Reading Conference can drop the stupid "3rd Oldest in the Nation" lie since it is not true and nobody cares. Finally, a breath of honesty will exist. The Reading Conference can happen without the taint of dishonesty.