Funny, her listing on the CoAL website lists that title. You'd think as fast as they change ED's website that they could get hers straight.

Dr. von Hermann was another one of the casualties under Thames in her Interim Provost Gulf Coast position, which was eliminated in the Fall of 2003 (just prior to the time that the newly created position of Gulf Coast COO was created for Ken Malone).  Sometime after that she became the Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Letters. 

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Originally posted by: COAST Guard
"Dr. von Hermann was another one of the casualties under Thames in her Interim Provost Gulf Coast position, which was eliminated in the Fall of 2003 (just prior to the time that the newly created position of Gulf Coast COO was created for Ken Malone).  Sometime after that she became the Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Letters. "

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or a Survivor?

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor8/

Actually, she was forced out. Soon after the five deans started work, SFT humiliated her in a meeting with them and ordered her to muzzle several Coast faculty who were speaking out against his plans for Gulf Park. He and Hudson tried to make her appoint an untenured junior faculty as chair of a GP "division" and she balked. SFT told her to tell certain senior faculty to stop talking to legislators and to "shut up and do their jobs." She refused.

Interestingly, the story goes that only two deans supported her-Doty and Pood. (Pood later offered her the job she now holds as assist dean). Don't know if she's ever finally caved in to the pressure or not.

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Originally posted by: friend from Coast
"Actually, she was forced out. Soon after the five deans started work, SFT humiliated her in a meeting with them and ordered her to muzzle several Coast faculty who were speaking out against his plans for Gulf Park. He and Hudson tried to make her appoint an untenured junior faculty as chair of a GP "division" and she balked. SFT told her to tell certain senior faculty to stop talking to legislators and to "shut up and do their jobs." She refused. Interestingly, the story goes that only two deans supported her-Doty and Pood. (Pood later offered her the job she now holds as assist dean). Don't know if she's ever finally caved in to the pressure or not."

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We've all been humiliated by SFT & Co.

What's the big deal about this?

The "vacancy" that was being "filled" in the GP Division in question was created by the defection of the former chair (an untenured junior faculty member) to Hattiesburg where she soon re-emerged and continues to serve as Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Research while still an untenured junior faculty member.

What makes it noble for Dr. von Herrmann to balk at the appointment of untenured junior faculty members to service as chairs of GP "Divisions?" Dr. von Herrmann herself served as chair of another GP "Division" as an untenured junior faculty member before "ascending" to the interim associate provost position for the Coast while her application for promotion and tenure was still pending.

Did she want her “own” person in that position? Perhaps, but who would that person be and, in any event, was it not already clear who “owned” the Chairs and Provosts, interim and otherwise?

Perhaps, she saw what was coming, but was uncomfortable presiding over what now, in hindsight, appears to have been a foregone conclusion, the balkanization of site based academic organization and authority on the Coast and the imposition of imperial “shared governance” where all roads lead to Hattiesburg.

A really nasty rumor currently circulating on the Coast has a CoAL assistant dean impregnating his secretary while she was also his student. According to the story, this secretary-student was transferred to a better position, pardon the pun, at USM, Keesler AFB, thus absolving the incontinent asst. dean of to need to be, all the same time, prof, boss and babyfather to the secretary/student. Apparently wedding bells are in the air as well. One of the profs in his college told me the other day that this asst. dean was busy planning a wedding.

Has anybody else heard this? The reason I put it to this thread is that, if true, the whole thing could've only been accomplished with considerable help from the CoAL dean's office, including the redoubtable DVH.

Readers of this thread need to be aware that DVH did, during her brief, inglorious tenure as GC academic dean, play an instrumental role in firing an untenured computer science professor who was merely charged w/sexual pecadillos by a USM student . These were charges that the Gulfport DA declined to pursue, and the student complainent was taking no classes with him at the time, was not even a major in his College. Apparently DVH took the advice of that infamous ratbastard Jack Hanbury that, "We can fire an untenured prof if we don't like his haircut."

Doubt you that the lord will visit for such as this?