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Miles Long

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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/updates/7999.html

As always, as a professor, I claim "fair use".

USM’s Ball resigns as department chair





Elliott Pood, dean of the University of Southern Mississippi College of Arts and Letters, will meet next week with the English faculty in the wake of Angela Ball’s resignation as department chair.

Pood hopes to name a new chair, possibly on a interim basis, before classes begin Aug. 23.

“I need to move pretty quickly but I don’t want to do anything without talking to the faculty,” he said.

Ball, a published poet, will return to full-time teaching and writing.

“Those are the things I do best,” she said. “There were many things I enjoyed about being chair along with the difficulties.”

Ball was serving as chair when Southern Miss President Shelby Thames consolidated nine degree-granting colleges into five in July 2003, resulting in a wholesale turnover in deans. Terry Harper, long-time dean of the College of Liberal Arts, returned to teaching history before retiring this summer.

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Originally posted by: Miles Long
"“I need to move pretty quickly but I don’t want to do anything without talking to the faculty,” he [Pood] said. "

And to that, I say:  why ruin your track record on that one, Elliott? 




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IMWTK

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Wasn't Salda chair when reorganization took place?

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Angeline

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"Wasn't Salda chair when reorganization took place?"
Yes, and he resigned so Hudson recommended Ball to Pood who readily agreed as the other alternative was, gasp, Noel Polk.  Pood will only allow a lackey to be chair in that department now or he'll make associate dean Denise VonHerrmann chair it as she is doing with Foreign Languages already.

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stinky cheese man

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ball was made interim chair before Pood even got here.  Hudson removed the "interim" from her title when he became provost of the hattiesburg campus on July 1.  Pood didn't start until August 1.

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truth4usm/AH

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Originally posted by: Angeline
"Yes, and he resigned so Hudson recommended Ball to Pood who readily agreed as the other alternative was, gasp, Noel Polk.  Pood will only allow a lackey to be chair in that department now or he'll make associate dean Denise VonHerrmann chair it as she is doing with Foreign Languages already."
And, as I've posted before, here's the other part of that story...when Salda resigned, the Eng. Dept. met and decided that they wanted to put Noel's name forward as the new chair.  SFT refused to have Noel as chair, so he told Maureen Ryan (then an Asst. Provost) that she would serve as the new chair of Eng. *in addition* to her job as Asst. Provost.  She decided that enough was enough, and went back to teaching full-time (no Asst. Provost, no chair).  That's when Angela stepped in as interim.

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