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Dvorak writings don’t measure up

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A University of Southern Mississippi English professor who has read most of vice president Angie Dvorak’s published writings says the university senior administrator’s scholarly work falls well below what is usually expected for academics seeking tenure at USM.

“Altogether she published 26 printed pages of material between her achievement of a Ph.D. in 1989 and the present day,” said English professor Anne Wallace, who has read three of the five articles Dvorak said she has published. “In a major literary journal, articles normally run from 20 to 30 pages, a single article. So that’s a very small amount of text.”

Dvorak likely would not have received tenure in USM’s English Department, said Wallace.

“This work is perfectly competent for what it purports to be,” Wallace said Thursday. “But it does not match what we would be looking for if we were reviewing her credentials if we were looking to tenure her in our own department.

“It would have been a very, very hard sell on the part of the administration to make us tenure her in this department,” she added.