new dean to get axed

Date: Mar 27, 2004

new dean to get axed

Date: Mar 27, 2004

Maybe it will be Elliot "Let me hide in my office while tenured professors get fired" Pood, Dean of Arts and Letters.

Date: Mar 27, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: truth4usm
"Maybe it will be Elliot "Let me hide in my office while tenured professors get fired" Pood, Dean of Arts and Letters."

If Harper and Hauer were still at the helm of Liberal Arts, this mess would have been nipped in the bud.

Honestly, I pity Pood. What a horrendous situation in which to find one's self.

Date: Mar 27, 2004

I have heard from several places that it will be Harold Doty of the the College of Business and Economic Development. Word has is it that Shelby/Dvorak want their boy Ken Malone in there ASAP. As Simon Cowell would say, Malone will be "well beyond his depth" if he is installed. Some faculty on the Coast told me he is already doing a God-awful job at his current posting on the Coast and as head of the economic development department in Hattiesburg.

Someone should "expos`e" this guy.

Date: Mar 27, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: deepthroat
"I have heard from several places that it will be Harold Doty of the the College of Business and Economic Development. Word has is it that Shelby/Dvorak want their boy Ken Malone in there ASAP. As Simon Cowell would say, Malone will be "well beyond his depth" if he is installed. Some faculty on the Coast told me he is already doing a God-awful job at his current posting on the Coast and as head of the economic development department in Hattiesburg. Someone should "expos`e" this guy."

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. Ken Malone has never been a tenured professor ANYWHERE. He has never served in any academic position before he came back to USM (he got his PhD here in Polymer Science, of course). There's no way this would fly for accreditation purposes. Unless Angie teaches Ken how to fudge his resume, too!

Date: Mar 28, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: truth4usm
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Actually it looks like Malone is fudging on his resume now. The entry for his current position implies he has been Director of Business Ventures AND the ED department chair since 2002. I believe David Kolzow was still the ED chair until sometime in 2003.

Date: Mar 28, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Googler
" Actually it looks like Malone is fudging on his resume now. The entry for his current position implies he has been Director of Business Ventures AND the ED department chair since 2002. I believe David Kolzow was still the ED chair until sometime in 2003."

You're right! Guess he learned that move from his mentor, Angie D.

Date: Mar 28, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: truth4usm
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Sadly, it appears that it will be Doty from the College of Business and Economic Development. On one hand, it would be shocking for Malone to be Dean (even interim) for the very reason truth4usm mentions...accreditation. But on the other hand, it's an accreditation problem that has Doty in trouble with the Dvorak/Hudson/Malone economic development machine. ED's online PhD program doesn't meet AACSB accreditation standards..it isn't even close. The faculty members in ED, which include Dvorak, Hudson and Malone (see http://www.usm.edu/ecodev/pages/faculty.htm) would rather lose AACSB accreditation for the college than lose the online PhD program or move it from the college of business. It's supposedly very financially lucrative (and at today's USM, Inc., it's ALL about $$$). But Doty isn't playing ball. Like everyone else in the college (outside of ED), he views AACSB accreditation as very desirable...a symbol of quality and academic standards that the college has been able to achieve for years. However, Hudson and Malone see AACSB as a burden...an inhibitor to their vision. That online PhD is Hudson's baby, you know; he created it. He isn't going to let a "little" thing like AACSB accreditation hurt his baby.

So, if you think about it, it may not be that crazy for Malone to be the new Dean. The powers that be don't seem to care about AACSB accreditation in the first place, so what's to stop them from installing an untenured polymer guy as Dean of the College of Business and Economic Development (sans AACSB accreditation)?

Best I can tell, Doty's ONLY chance for survival (and continued AACSB accreditation for the college) is if he can convince Hudson to move that online PhD in economic development out of the college. But no one sees that happening.

Date: Mar 28, 2004

My understanding is that the search committee in Education and Psychology recommended that Willy Pierce be named dean about a month ago.

Date: Mar 28, 2004

That last post of mine sounded so disjointed, given the preceeding several entries, but there was a segue. Willy seems to have been the choice of the committee and yet he has not been offered the permanent job. I was thinking that the rumor might have been about him. Now I reread the entire thread and see that it's about one of the three new deans, not the five. Teaches me to try and think at midnight - sorry!