Turner Business

Heading into the fall semester Turner Business decided to examine the average class sizes of the business courses offered by the Turner College in subjects where students can earn a degree, either undergraduate or graduate. At the undergraduate level this list would include accounting (ACCT), finance (FINC), management (MGMT), management information systems (MISM) and marketing (MKTG). At the graduate level there is the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Science in Organizational Leadership (MSOL), the latter of which also includes courses in human resources (MSHR) and servant leadership (MSSL). The data are shown in the table below. As shown in the table above, the average class size in management, 33.8 students, exceeds that in every other undergraduate major. Its closest rival is marketing, with an average class size of 31.0 students, followed by accounting, with an average class size of 29.9 students. Bringing up the rear is finance, with an average class size o...

During the Turner College's welcome back gathering on August 4, 2026, Student Success Manager Talisha Lockhart  unveiled a new pilot program, Peer Academic Leaders (PALs), designed to elevate the academic performance of business and computer science students. According to the plan, the Turner College's undergraduate student tutors will be replaced with graduate students holding undergraduate degrees in business or computer science who will devote time to working with groups of students on team projects, sometimes during class sessions, that are required in the courses of study. Although some hours will remain dedicated to one-to-one tutoring, Lockhart noted that this "more student-focused approach" is geared to the kind of academic assistance that today's students require. As we often do, Turner Business scooped this news back in July when we reported that the College was looking to hire Peer Academic Leaders. According to that report, and Monster.com , the new ...

Columbus State University has appointed Bryan Banks as the Dean of Libraries & Archives. A member of the university’s faculty since 2018, he has served as Interim Dean of Libraries & Graduate School since 2024.  In his new role, Banks will lead the CSU library network’s strategic vision, academic planning and operations. This network features the Simon Schwob Memorial Library on Main Campus, as well as specialized art and music libraries at the RiverPark Campus. With nearly 300,000 items in its collections, the libraries provide informational access to all programs on campus. Additionally, it includes the Archives & Special Collections, charged with preserving university and regional history, along with maintaining more than 500 distinct collections that include the renowned J. Kyle Spencer Map Collection and a developing military history archive.  “[Bryan] Banks has outlined a vision for the CSU Libraries that enhances our students’ and faculty’s academic, researc...

Finance professor and chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance, Gisung Moon , has been named as the Turner College's Assessment Director. According to Interim Dean Tesa Leonce 's announcement at Tuesday's Fall 2026 meeting, the Assessment Director works collaboratively with the Assurance of Learning Committee to provide leadership, coordination, and oversight of all assessment activities supporting AACSB and SACS accreditation requirements. In this role Moon will manage and monitor learning outcomes across all academic programs, (1) ensuring that assessment processes and outcomes align with institutional and accreditation standards and (2) promoting a culture of continuous improvement through the systematic evaluation of student learning. The Turner College is halfway through the current AACSB reaccreditation cycle, which spans six years. The College earned (re)accreditation multiple times under the leadership of former Dean Linda Hadley, and once during Deborah Ki...

The loss of enrollment at CSU that Turner Business has been reporting on for quite some time continues into Fall 2026. This report examines the current fall-to-fall enrollment numbers within the Turner College. These are shown in the table below. As indicated below, enrollment in the Department of Accounting & Finance has fallen to its current Fall 2026 level by 8.0% since Fall 2025. From Fall 2024 until today, the enrollment drop in this unit stands at 9.8%. The Department of Management and Marketing's trends are worse. Since Fall 2025, this unit has lost 12.9% of its enrollment. Over the longer period since Fall 2024, this unit's loss stands at 16.7%. There is, however, a bit of better news to report for the TSYS School. There, enrollments have risen by 12.6% since Fall 2025, and by 3.5% since Fall 2024. Today the Turner College enrolls 1,647 students. Two years ago, in Fall 2024, enrollment in the Turner College stood at 1,785 students. It is important that Turner Busin...

CSU's Office of University Advancement, led by Chief Advancement Officer Karen McCauley, is the process of hiring a new development officer with dedicated responsibilities to the Turner College and TSYS School. CSU is in the early stages of a new capital campaign, with an ultimate goal of raising $125 million by 2030 and an intermediate goal of having $80 million of that total secured by 2028. The new development officers will not only assist in meeting these goals, he or she is expected to raise about $2 million per year going forward and to reinvigorate the Turner College's now dormant Business Advisory Council. In making the announcement at the Turner College Orientation on Tuesday, August 4, officials noted that the new development officer will maintain an office in the Synovus Center. Turner College faculty and staff were asked to consider the needs of the College going forward. During the presentation TSYS School Chair Rania Hodhod added that one item under consideration...