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CSU alum Brett Reichert enrolled in the Turner College's MSOL program in 2013 as an Aide-de-Camp Infantry Commandant in the U.S. Army and a graduate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Kentucky. He completed the degree requirements for the MSOL degree in 2014 and three years later, in 2017, began pursuit of a master's degree in policy management at Georgetown University. During this period, he rose to Aide-de-Camp Deputy Commanding General, Regional Command East in Afghanistan, and then over to Company Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. After completing the master's degree program at Georgetown University, Reichert moved to a staff position in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later to Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army. Prior to entering Cornell University, he served as a Brigade Executive Officer in the 4th Infantry Division. Reichert's most recent professional experience is Battalion Commander in...

During the academic year 2025-2026 that is now coming to a close, t he University System of Georgia (USG) continued its temporary waiver of test score requirements. With state colleges already test optional, this meant no test scores were required for admission at 22 of USG’s 25 public colleges and universities.  The temporary waiver did not apply to the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia and Georgia College & State University.  For academic year 2025-2026, the 22 remaining institutions had two options for making admissions decisions: (1)  schools could use the Freshman Index formula that includes the student’s high school grade point average and test scores for either the SAT or ACT, and (2)  schools could use a test-optional approach that considers a student’s grade point average on the required high school curriculum without a standardized test score at various minimum grade point averages. For Augusta University and Georgia State Unive...

Georgia Trend magazine's Jennifer Hafer recently penned a lengthy report on the Columbus economy that readers of Turner Business might find useful. The text of that report appears below.  

With next week's departure of Deborah Kidder  to Kutztown University, where she will serve as dean of the business school, Turner Business decided to re-examine  the Google Scholar citations that are attributed to the research by the Turner College's remaining business faculty. The Turner College currently will have 27 total tenured and tenure-track faculty following Kidder's departure , including three administrators. Hence, the corps of instruction count will stand at 24. The Turner College's remaining corps of instruction is associated with 21,080, for an average of 878.3 Google Scholar citations per faculty.  When the administrators are included, the total rises to 21,571 Google Scholar citations while the average falls to 798.9 Google Scholar citations per faculty.  When the data are broken down by departmental unit, the 10 members of the corps of instruction in accounting and finance are responsible for 7,786 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 778.6 G...

The Turner College Dean's Office has announced that  Parking Lot 4, situated behind the Synovus Center on CSU's main campus, will be restriped this weekend, if the weather permits.  Alternative parking will be available in other parking lots.

Kutztown University has named the Turner College's Deborah Kidder as Dean of its College of Business. Kidder brings more than 30 years' experience to KU and will begin her role Monday, June 29.  Kidder most recently served as the Dean of the Turner College of Business and Technology at CSU from 2021-2025. During her tenure, she successfully connected students, faculty and staff with the local community, through industry partnerships and engagement with the local school system and nonprofits. Under her leadership, the college pursued several initiatives designed to meet the needs of the 21st-century workforce, such as a rapid workforce development program in cybersecurity, as well as redesigning graduate courses to meet the needs of working adults and with a special focus on one of their community partners, Fort Benning.  "Dr. Kidder has extensive experience as a faculty member and administrator," said Dr. Lorin Basden Arnold, Kutztown University's Provost and Sen...