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Just saw in the Chronicle of Higher Education that USM is looking for new faculty, but the advertised Chairs didn't correpond with what I remembered.

MULTIPLE POSITIONS
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

The University of Southern Mississippi College of Business seeks highly qualified, motivated administrators and faculty members to lead the college through a period of new growth. The College of Business currently enrolls approximately 2,400 undergraduate and 150 graduate students at both its Hattiesburg and Long Beach campuses. The college offers undergraduate degree plans in accounting, banking and finance, casino/resort management, economics, entrepreneurship, fashion merchandising, health care marketing, human resource management, international business, management, management information systems, marketing, persona financial planning, real estate, supply chain management and tourism.

Founded in 1910, The University of Southern Mississippi is a comprehensive doctoral and research-extensive university fulfilling its mission of being a leading university in engaging and empowering individuals to transform their lives and communities. The University of Southern Mississippi, which enrolls nearly 16,000 students each year, is the only dual-campus university in Mississippi with campuses in Hattiesburg and Long Beach. Six additional research and teaching sites are located on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Meridian. Learn more at www.usm.edu

The College of Business seeks ten faculty positions, all of which are subject to funding. The following positions are open and further information and applications may be found on The University of Southern Mississippi Human Resources' Web site at www.usm.edu/hr

Department Chair - Finance, Real Estate and Legal Studies
Department Chair - Management and International Business
Department Chair - Marketing and Fashion Merchandising
Department Chair - Business Economics and Decision Sciences
Department Chair - Casino, Hospitality and Tourism Management
Assistant Professor - Finance
Instructor - Finance
Instructor - Legal Studies
Instructor - Management
Instructor - Marketing

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If memory serves, there were 10 positions mentioned - 6 chairs and 4 instructors.  The sixth chair is actually the accounting director search already underway and the explanation was that removing information services and legal studies from the department didn't change the position enough to require a new search.  Management was presented as management, entrepreneurship and international business.  Entrepreneurship is missing from the above description.  The assistant professor of finance makes 11 posiitons.  There was no mention of subject to funding.  In fact there was some urgency about the position postings getting in under the wire before the hiring freeze was announced.

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Is Business Economics different than Economics?

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10 positions is an awful lot to fill in one cycle. What happens if the positions are not filled and their is a hiring freeze for the next cycle?

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Curmudgeon wrote:

Is Business Economics different than Economics?


Ever read the story about a bear who enters a bar and eats, shoots and leaves? 

It all depends on where you put the comma.  Business, Economics and Decision Sciences is different from Business Economics and Decision Sciences.  A simple typo, you think?


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I had heard that classic economics was going to Arts and Letters.

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The last figures I saw (now dated) put Ole Miss, State, and USM very close at the bottom on funding per FTE student. Of all eight IHL schools, State was the worst off, and Ole Miss did a little better than USM. The five smaller schools get far more per student. Perhaps that is related to the decision to make big funding cuts at some of the smaller schools.

The real disadvantage at USM comes from non state aid. Ole Miss does extremely well with alumni giving, and State gets federal funds by virtue of their land grant status. Also, the high percent of junior college transfers at USM means a higher proportion of upper division low enrollment courses which are more expensive per capita than large freshman classes.

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Curmudgeon wrote:

The last figures I saw (now dated) put Ole Miss, State, and USM very close at the bottom on funding per FTE student. Of all eight IHL schools, State was the worst off, and Ole Miss did a little better than USM. The five smaller schools get far more per student. Perhaps that is related to the decision to make big funding cuts at some of the smaller schools.

The real disadvantage at USM comes from non state aid. Ole Miss does extremely well with alumni giving, and State gets federal funds by virtue of their land grant status. Also, the high percent of junior college transfers at USM means a higher proportion of upper division low enrollment courses which are more expensive per capita than large freshman classes.


All great points, Curmudgeon.  Are the (smaller) HBCUs still getting special allocations as part of the Ayers settlement? That is also a factor that lowers per FTE funding at the larger universities & increases it for (some of) the smaller ones.

I'll concur with your analysis of alumni giving & grant funding with the note that Ole Miss gets more external funding than USM as well. I don't know if their total includes UMC though...

 



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Who is making that?   Is Saunders making that much?

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It would appear that the presidents don't make half as much as the football coaches.

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Anonymous wrote:

Who is making that?   Is Saunders making that much?


Here's what the latest Chronicle of Higher Education 'Executive Compensation' supplement says:

Mississippi State University: Vance H. Watson, interim 2007-8, $429,000 salary
U. of Mississippi: Robert C. Khayat 2007-8, $429,000 salary
U. of Southern Mississippi: Martha Saunders 2007-8, $345,500 salary

 



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Incredulous wrote:

It would appear that the presidents don't make half as much as the football coaches.



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The posts of "Toga, "Miss Celaneous" and "South Mouth" originated from the same IP addresses.  Those posts have been deleted. We are returning to a registration only board. Sorry to chop up this thread. 

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