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Date: Mar 1, 2006

Economic Development returning to COB

Date: Mar 1, 2006

Mader said so wrote:

Just had a memo shown to me stating that economic development (IDV) will return to the college of business effective 06-07. This move will allow business to keep graduate assistants around in the form of phd assistantships. I can't help but remember that Lisa Mader said that economic development might one day move back to business. I think she was spouting off then, but through a strange turn of events it proved prophetic I guess.

Ooooh Myyyy Gooooshh!

Date: Mar 1, 2006

This could be the break the COB has been waiting for. The first round of IDV in the COB was cut short by Doty. If Doty is out, returning IDV to the COB will not only give it the requisite Ph.D. program for GA money, it will also return an experienced and very competent former dean to the COB ranks. No need to look elsewhere for your replacement, boys.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

But it may have some significant AACSB accreditation implications!!

Date: Mar 2, 2006

One thing to look for with this move is IDV faculty participation teaching soph level economics courses. I heard that discussion already. "Cost savings" can be had by not filling at least some of the newly created vacancies in economics. Dr. Naghshpour and the guys to the rescue.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Mader said so wrote:

... I can't help but remember that Lisa Mader said that economic development might one day move back to business. I think she was spouting off then, but through a strange turn of events it proved prophetic I guess.

This move was predicted because that was the plan from the beginning. The only reason to move E.D. out of CoB was because of SACS and business accreditation. Once USM passed those, E.D. can be moved back.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

This move was predicted because that was the plan from the beginning. The only reason to move E.D. out of CoB was because of SACS and business accreditation. Once USM passed those, E.D. can be moved back.

This passage uses past tense to discuss AACSB accreditation. That comes as news since the process has barely started. COB has enough problems facing reaccreditation without dumping a bogus program into the college.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Cossack wrote:

This passage uses past tense to discuss AACSB accreditation. That comes as news since the process has barely started. COB has enough problems facing reaccreditation without dumping a bogus program into the college.

I know I'm guilty of wishful thinking, but most of us seem to think that problems (at minimum probation) with accreditation are a foregone comclusion. As I recall turnover weighs heavily in the re-accreditation process. Research productivity also counts. Right now, we rank highly in turnover (bad) and low in research productivity, since the departures take their portfolios when they leave.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Cossack wrote:

...This passage uses past tense to discuss AACSB accreditation. ...

My bad, I was thinking of SACS. Actually both have not been completed. Please change the tense to future.

But that was the plan. I believe SFT even stated that at a PUC meeting long ago.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Wantin' ain't gettin'!

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Just reminding everyone of a post by "jenny" on the Joe Morgan thread the day Morgan's appointment was announced:

Name: Jenny

Date: 5 days ago
Views: 704

Quote | ReplyRE: Interim CFO

Mr. Morgan was selected the other day when it was decided that Dr. Shadad would be needed to fill a different position in the near future. He came highly recommended by some in the business college and in the business community. He is "Interim" as well.

Very interesting.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

"They're baaaaaaack...."

http://www.usm.edu/international/pages/fac_staff.html

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Didn't Naghashpour move to CoAL less than a year ago for a big promotion as Director of the IDV program, replacing Butler? Why is he no longer the Director?

Date: Mar 2, 2006

ed for life wrote:

"They're baaaaaaack...." http://www.usm.edu/international/pages/fac_staff.html

Holy Smokes, the International Development faculty photos look eerily like those celebrity mug shots you see on the Smoking Gun web site.

www.thesmokinggun.com Check it out....

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Hollywood Reporter wrote:

Holy Smokes, the International Development faculty photos look eerily like those celebrity mug shots you see on the Smoking Gun web site. www.thesmokinggun.com Check it out....

There's a reason for that!

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Outside Observer wrote:

Hollywood Reporter wrote: Holy Smokes, the International Development faculty photos look eerily like those celebrity mug shots you see on the Smoking Gun web site. www.thesmokinggun.com Check it out....

There's a reason for that!

Isn't this the half a$$ed doctoral program that Greg Lassen knocked out in a couple of years of part time study while serving as USM CFO?

Date: Mar 2, 2006

I guess this question will expose my ignorance, but as I read the IDV web page description and faculty CV's and areas of interest, the IDV program seems like a subset of Geography rather than a bona fide separate field of study, much as polymer science might be fairly characterized as a specialized subset of Organic Chemistry. Am I off base here? If I'm correct, why is USM re-inventing the wheel by marketing the program as new and unique?

Date: Mar 2, 2006

$$$$$$$$

Date: Mar 2, 2006

LVN wrote:

$$$$$$$$

Upon second glance, it looks like a repackaged mail-order PhD to me. Has USM made any money from this program? I thought Ken Malone was the Big Kahuna for IDV but don't see him on the faculty page. What's up with that?