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Last night while plodding through accumulated mail I uncovered the Fall 2006 issue of the alumni association's "Southern Miss Connections."  Certain of the claims gave me pause and I'd like to know if the board cognoscenti can confirm the following--


"As the books were closed June 30, external research dollars reached $102 million for the first time in Southern Miss history.  By comparison,  the figure equaled the combined research funding total at the University of Mississippi and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson." 


The most recent research funding data available at the IHL web site is FY 2004.  I'm assuming the above comparison refers to FY 2006 data?   $100 mil is a major milestone. If USM is indeed outpacing Ole Miss and the Med Center combined,  that's an impressive accomplishment.  On the other hand,  it also makes Ole Miss look pretty lame.


"....20 percent of engineering Ph.D.s in Mississippi were awarded by Southern Miss."


Huh? When did USM establish an engineering school?  Is it hidden away on the D'Lo campus?


On the College of Arts and Letters page,  there's a piece on the casino industry which makes reference to the "Southern Miss Department of Political Science,  International Development,  and Affairs."  Is this really a department,  or a misprint?  If correct,  does this strike anyone as a very peculiar aggregate of disciplines,  none of which seems to fit Arts and Letters. And by the way,  what kind of affairs are we talking about here?


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Austin Eagle wrote:

On the College of Arts and Letters page,  there's a piece on the casino industry which makes reference to the "Southern Miss Department of Political Science,  International Development,  and Affairs."  Is this really a department,  or a misprint?


That is the name on the website.


www.usm.edu/polisci


The good ole DOPSIDA


Evidently Gene Taylor is talking today at 4:00 pm in the Cochran Center, room #210.


(How do you not make a hotlink?  In IE, it keeps returning to a hotlink whenever I move off the line...I know this is different in firefox, but I do not have it on my work computer.)



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Looking at the page called faculty publications and research activities, quotes to the media, regional conference presentations, and stuff published in the CL and HA are prominently and proudly displayed in great detail. Padding galore or par for the CV course in poli-sci?

-- Edited by Godless Liberal at 10:37, 2006-10-23

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I'm hijacking my own thread. So...International Development and Affairs is an Arts & Letters program,  and Economic Development is a Science & Technology program?  For some reason I had the impression that these programs were the same.  Is this a byproduct of the great Thames reorganization plan?  The more I learn,  the more nonsensical this all seems.


AE,  even more confused than usual



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Austin Eagle wrote:

"....20 percent of engineering Ph.D.s in Mississippi were awarded by Southern Miss."

Huh? When did USM establish an engineering school?  Is it hidden away on the D'Lo campus?



The title of the polymer Ph.D. is Polymer Science and Engineering.  If I remember correctly, there was a big fight about allowing USM have engineering in the title of a degree. 


It was hard to find a good web page for this, but here is something from a press release:


http://www.usm.edu/pr/releases/2006/may/strock.htm


"Strock also will be briefed at 2 p.m. on initiatives in the university’s Construction Engineering Technology and Polymer Science and Engineering programs."



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Austin Eagle wrote:


AE,  even more confused than usual




I'm sorry AE, you'll have to take a number . . .

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Austin Eagle wrote:


I'm hijacking my own thread. So...International Development and Affairs is an Arts & Letters program,  and Economic Development is a Science & Technology program?  For some reason I had the impression that these programs were the same.  Is this a byproduct of the great Thames reorganization plan?  The more I learn,  the more nonsensical this all seems.


AE,  even more confused than usual



OH, I can answer this one.  I remember sitting down with Doty a couple of years ago when it was decided to dump economic development onto other colleges. He basically said the College of Business was going to lose it's accreditation if economic development stayed. Therefore, they broke it up and sent the International development program (which is a graduate degree anyway as I recall) to the Political Science department because..well I don't remember the reasoning anymore (I think it had something to do with the logic that the PS dept. had teachers who specialized in International Affairs and were better equipped to advise student on that aspect or something like that), and they sent the rest to the College of Science and Technology. So basically it was to save the College of Business' butts from losing it's accreditation as a result of the economic development program. That happened..what.. 2004 I think?

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