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CSU's Center for Academic Coaching has recognized  Yvette Maxwell , an academic coach for the TSYS School, as its latest Culture Champion. According to the CAC, Maxwell exemplifies what it means to be a Cougar, as her passion for CSU students shines through in everything she does in her position. " From her leadership with the TSYS School students to her active engagement across campus, Yvette is known for her positivity, collaboration, and open-door approach. She builds authentic connections, supports student success, and strengthens our community every day," stated officials in the CAC. Turner Business joins them in saluting Yvette, a three-time CSU graduate, for  being an inspiring Culture Champion.

The Center for Academic Coaching's Shaneka Thrash was recently recognized for the meaningful impact she continues to make on CSU students every single day. Shaneka, a Lead Academic Coach who works with students in the Turner College, was selected by players from the CSU men's and women's basketball teams as an employee who has made a meaningful impact in their lives. As explained by the  Center for Academic Coaching, a cademic coaching is more than course planning and registration — it’s mentorship, accountability, encouragement, and showing up consistently for students when it matters most. Shaneka embodies all of that and more. Her leadership, compassion, and dedication help our students not only succeed academically but grow personally and professionally.  Please join the CAC and Turner Business in c ongratulating Shaneka, as her impact is not going unnoticed.

Communications, mental health services, cybersecurity operations, governmental affairs, medicine, clinical research, data visualization, fine and performing arts, and public health are only some of the disciplines represented by the inaugural group of 27 Thayer Scholars at CSU. Thanks to a new scholarship fund established by John P. Thayer and his wife, Pamela, of Columbus, undergraduate students now have access to additional resources through the university’s Center for Career Coaching to gain invaluable, hands-on field experience as they apply classroom learning in real-world settings. Those internships, research, and service-learning experiences are poised to set them apart from their peers as they pursue postgraduate jobs or continue their studies at the graduate level. A lifelong career construction executive, Thayer recognizes the importance of professional experience to long-term career readiness and success. In 1965, the Columbus native founded what is now Thayer-Bray Construct...

In February of each calendar year, Turner College and TSYS School faculty submit electronic portfolios describing their accomplishments over the previous calendar year in the areas of teaching, research, service and student success to their respective department chairs. The four areas of these portfolios are rated by the respective department chairs using the categories of "exceptional," "exceeds expectations," "meets expectations" or "satisfactory," "needs improvement," etc. Once completed, each department chair holds an in-person meeting with each faculty member to explain the assigned ratings and answer any questions. Most recently, under former Turner College Dean Deborah Kidder , the department chairs' ratings were considered final, and the Dean had no input. As a consequence, there was no standardization of ratings across departments, meaning that what it took to receive an "exceeds expectations" in one department wa...

The Turner College's February 2026 faculty and staff meeting was held yesterday afternoon and there are quite a few items that were covered. At the top of the meeting Acting Turner College Dean Tesa Leonce provided an update regarding construction work on the Synovus Center. Phase 4 of the project has commenced, meaning that work on the front of the building is now taking place. The target date for completion of that work is May 19, 2026. This project to replace the Synovus Center's envelope has operated under a $10 million budget and is being undertaken by Sheridan Construction. Since the beginning of Phase 4, the street in front of the Synovus Center has been converted to one-way traffic. Next, Leonce updated faculty and staff on the process of searching for a permanent dean of the Turner College. CSU is currently vetting search firms, having recently moved from four to three candidates for the job. Once a search firm is selected, it will work with a CSU search comm...

A series of posts here at Turner Business celebrates various Google Scholar citation milestones reached by business faculty. As indicated in the most recent of these, highlighting marketing professor  Ed O'Donnell reaching the 500 total Google Scholar citations milestone, various metrics provided by Google Scholar, such as the i10-index and the h-index, are reported. For this post, Turner Business created a metric, the i50-index, which is the number of a scholar's publications that have each garnered at least 50 Google Scholar citations. The i50-index for each Turner College business faculty is provided, using the ranges shown, in the table below. As indicated in the table above, 17 Turner College business faculty have thus far produced an i50-index value of at least one, with six scoring an i50-index above five. In the top category, with an i50-index above 15, are management professor Deborah Kidder and economics professor Frank Mixon . Turner College management professor ...