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Arkansas Grad Student

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With all this talk about Doty and making deals, I took a look at his vita. Here's a breakdown by year, his position, and number of refereed journal articles, according to the vita available online:

Year Position # of Refereed Journal Articles
1988 Grad Student, UT-Austin 1
1989 Grad Student, UT-Austin 0
1990 Assistant Prof., U of Arkansas 1
1991 Assistant Prof., U of Arkansas 0
1992 Assistant Prof., U of Arkansas 0
1993 Assistant Prof., U of Arkansas 1
1994 Assistant Prof., U of Arkansas 1
1995 Associate Prof., Syracuse U 0
1996 Associate Prof., Syracuse U 1
1997 Associate Prof., Syracuse U 0
1998 Associate Prof., Syracuse U 1
1999 Associate Prof., Syracuse U 0
2000 Associate Prof., Syracuse U 0
2001 Associate Prof., Syracuse U 0
2002 Associate Prof., Syracuse U 0
2003 Professor and Dean, USM 0
2004 Professor and Dean, USM 1
2005-?? Professor and Dean, USM 2

For the sake of full disclosure, Doty became Chair of the Department of Strategy and Human Resources at Syracuse in Spring of 1998 and remained in that capacity until 2002.

Also for the sake of full disclosure let me say that at quality business schools, refereed journal articles are the main (read: only) real consideration in promotion and tenure decisions. While proceedings, presentations, book chapters, and other scholarly works have their place, when schools talk to candidates about P&T, they talk about the general guidelines in terms of refereed journal articles.

This means that Doty was tenured and promoted (all while moving from Arkansas to Syracuse) on the basis of four (4) refereed journal articles in seven (7) years. His promotion to full professor came after an additional two (2) refereed journal articles in eight (8) years. The simultaneous promotion to Dean at USM came after a little more than five (5) years' total administrative experience at the department level.

I wonder if Doty ever made a deal with Arkansas or Syracuse. His tenure and promotion to full was part of his deal with USM.


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eagle gone

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He could never make it at a proper school as part of the rank and file faculty.  He ran for the hills (administration) as fast as he could. 



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office in a loft downtown

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"His tenure and promotion to full was part of his deal with USM."

Doty was reportedly the only dean hired with tenure. That's a move that SFT regretted soon thereafter and one that many in the CoB now regret.


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UAB Blazer

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I know (from an administrator friend at UAB) that Doty interviewed at UAB for the Chairman's job in Management at the same time he interviewed at USM. Why would one consider leaving a Chair job at a school like Syracuse for an equivalent job at a school like UAB?

Is there more to Doty's moves than meets the eye?

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Invictus

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UAB Blazer wrote:
Why would one consider leaving a Chair job at a school like Syracuse for an equivalent job at a school like UAB?


Warmer weather?


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UAB Blazer

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Invictus wrote:


Warmer weather?



That's why he left Fayetteville for Syracuse?

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Invictus

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UAB Blazer wrote:
That's why he left Fayetteville for Syracuse?


That step was from faculty to chair, no?



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UAB Blazer

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Invictus wrote:

UAB Blazer wrote:
That's why he left Fayetteville for Syracuse?


That step was from faculty to chair, no?




No. There was a promotion to associate, but one would assume that Doty would have gotten associate at Arkansas.

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Arkansas Grad Student

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UAB Blazer wrote:

No. There was a promotion to associate, but one would assume that Doty would have gotten associate at Arkansas.


I know a guy who is an Arkansas graduate who was at USM. The way I understand it, nobody at Arkansas will talk about Doty. Apparently there is some ongoing legal/grievance action. Maybe promotion in Fayetteville was not a safe assumption.

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tensetown

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Both of Doty's promotions were granted to him directly by university presidents at two separate institutions.  He has never sat on a faculty body and voted on a promotion to professor before either.  And that qualifies him to be Dean?



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stinky cheese man

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i understand he filed a lawsuit to get tenure.

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tensetown

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stinky cheese man wrote:

i understand he filed a lawsuit to get tenure.
Thanks, scm.  It's interesting what USM will "drag in" to fill positions like these.

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stinky cheese man

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from what i've heard, he wasn't the first choice of the search committee here. he was, however, first choice of the provost.

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Opthalmic

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stinky cheese man wrote:
i understand he filed a lawsuit to get tenure.


Ah, it all becomes clear.

This revelation from stinky cheese indicates that Doty's been a deal maker from the start.

There are procedures that others must follow like processes for promotion and tenure and there are ways around these processes for special people like Doty and his friends.

If the end around doesn't work then there is always the legal system.

Did anyone do any background checking on Doty before he was hired?

Do we know anything about the hiring process?

Was he the first choice or was he simply the last man standing?

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office in a loft downtown

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i seem to recall that one prominent local businessman resigned from the dean search committee over some divisive issue

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past caring

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enough already.  Doty is just another example of the species that has come to dominate so much of "administration" in higher education.  Would you buy a used car from him?  to those that have been around the block a few times, what has happened to the ratio of buy/wouldn't buy types in academic administration over the last couple of decades?  We're on a path like K-12 and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.  Eventually, the body of teachers and researchers will collapse under the wieght of an increasingly heavy and decomposing head of "adminstrators".  Just try not to get hit by the shrapnel and survive for another day.  Teaching and research will go in, it just needs to find a new venue.

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asdf

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Just because you are a good researcher, it does not mean that you will make a good researcher.  If research predicted administration ability, Shelby should be a wurl class president

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office in a loft downtown

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asdf wrote:
Just because you are a good researcher, it does not mean that you will make a good researcher.  If research predicted administration ability, Shelby should be a wurl class president


in this case we have a completely different data point. if sft is great researcher, poor administrator, then doty is poor researcher, poor administrator. still waiting for great researcher, great administrator and poor researcher, great administrator.

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office in a loft downtown wrote:

in this case we have a completely different data point. if sft is great researcher, poor administrator, then doty is poor researcher, poor administrator. still waiting for great researcher, great administrator and poor researcher, great administrator.
Does USM have a good administrator?  I don't see many complaints about Fos on this board.  How about Gandy or Pierce?

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