Turner Business

The newest list of Top 50 journals in business has been released by The Financial Times . This list is used by many of the top business schools around the globe to evaluate business faculty. Containing only 50 journals, this list is generally too restrictive to use as an assessment tool at most business schools. The typical business school employs longer lists constructed by the Chartered Association of Business Schools, the Australian Business Deans Council and Scimago. The new FT Top 50 list is provided below. Congrats to Turner College faculty who have published from this list in the past, such as Charles Boster (accounting), Deborah Kidder (management), Laurence Marsh (management), Frank Mixon (economics) and Ed O'Donnell (marketing). Academy of Management Annals Academy of Management Journal Academy of Management Review Accounting Review Accounting, Organizations and Society Administrative Science Quarterly American Economic Review American Sociological Review Contemporar...

It is once again the season for a quick look at the Google Scholar citations that are attributed to the research by the Turner College's business faculty. The Turner College currently has 28 total tenured and tenure-track faculty, including three administrators. Hence, the corps of instruction count stands at 25. As shown in the table below, the Turner College's corps of instruction is associated with 25,812 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 1,032.5 Google Scholar citations per faculty. When the administrators are included, the total rises to 26,294 Google Scholar citations while the average falls to 939.1 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 7,686 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 768.6 Google Scholar citations per faculty. When the two Turner College administrators from that unit are included, the total rises to 7,97...

The TSYS School is rolling out a new plan for senior capstone education. The new plan is an industry-sponsored research-focused program for senior computer science majors aimed at designing solutions to defined business challenges related to information technology, computer science and cybersecurity. According to the details of the new program, teams of students and a faculty mentor will be available to provide about 400 hours of engagement over the course of the semester on a business problem applicable to the fields listed above. Prospective industry partners will provide $5,000 investment to support a team's work, which will be based on bi-weekly meetings and capstone projects related to the business problem. Students, faculty and businesses involved in the program will gain (1) knowledge of how problems are solved cost effectively, (2) new ideas and perspectives from use of cutting-edge technologies, (3) a pipeline of talent from networking connections, and (4) access to brand ...

A new study on the history of business education in the U.S. by the Turner College's Kirk Heriot and Neal Thomson , along with Kennesaw State University's Shelby Meek, opens by pointing out that t he introductory business curriculum in the United States has remained largely unchanged since  the 1920s, despite dramatic shifts in higher education, business practice, and student needs. As the authors assert, the persistence of historical practice increasingly undermines student  success, institutional sustainability, and the relevance of business education. The researchers explain that m ost students encounter business education for the first time through accounting and economics,  which are the two courses with the highest national failure and withdrawal rates.  High failure rates are  also well documented in business statistics, another early-stage gatekeeper, where structural,  instructional, and system-level factors all contribute to widespread student di...

Several Turner College and TSYS School students had impressive showings at last week's 2026 Scholastic Honors Convocation on CSU's main campus.  Taking home awards from the Turner College were:  Accounting Award - Pruthviraj Guduru Finance Award - Joseph Holder Management Award - Rebecca Darko Marketing Award - Teigan Pepit Management Information Systems Award - Keir Etchison MBA Award - Robert Jimerson MSOL Award - Rachel Jenkins Student of Excellence Award - Drew Ashton Picking up awards from the TSYS School were: Software Systems Award -  Nicholas Cleplensky Web Development Award - Camille Ahumada Games Programming Award -  Conner Mathisen-Weitzel Information Technology Award - Jennifer Jackson Cybersecurity Award - Judson Whiteside Graduate Cybersecurity Defense Award - Yogesh Botcha Graduate Applied Computer Science Award - Dheeraj Kolla Graduate Cybersecurity Management Award - Rahul Raj Student of Excellence Award - Elijah Starkey Turner Business  congrat...

A key feature of Employee Appreciation Week, t he 2026 CSU Employee Awards Ceremony is set for next Tuesday, May 5. Several Turner College and TSYS School faculty are nominated this year. The list includes finance's Joshua Brooks , who is a finalist for the Excellence in Teaching Award. MIS professor Yoon Lee is a finalist for the Research and Scholarship Award, while accounting professor Charles Boster is a finalist for the Chappell Graduate Award. Among the TSYS School's nominees,  Linqiang Ge is a finalist for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, Amjad Hossain is a finalist for the Online Teaching Award, and Armando Fernandez is a finalist for the Service Award. Lastly, economics professor Wen Shi is a finalist for the Teaching Innovation Award. Turner Business wishes these nominees the best of luck.