Turner Business

Now through April 29, 2026, CSU students can qualify for a $2,500 scholarship just for (1) taking their headshot at the CSU Center for Career Coaching and (2) following the scholarship guidelines. As a reminder, the iris Pro Photo Booth is open during business hours in the Center’s second-floor office in the Schuster Student Success Center. Photos are free for students and employees, with receipt coming via e-mail. These are great for updating your online directory profile.

Last month Pinnacle Financial Partners completed its acquisition of Synovus. At almost the same time, Fidelity National Information Services completed its purchase of TSYS. This month new FIS signage is being installed on the various Columbus campuses of the company formerly known as TSYS. Soon, new PFP signage will be replace the Synovus nameplates at the former bank's local branches. Once complete, two iconic Columbus brands will have faded away. Both of these brands have been connected, to one degree or another, the Turner College. TSYS has at least twice given notable sums of money to the Turner College, which now houses the TSYS School of Computer Science and the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity. As for Synovus, even though it never gifted, at least publicly, a large sum to the Turner College, its name adorns the facility that is home to the Turner College on CSU's main campus. With the disappearance of both companies, are the names of the Turner College's computer scienc...

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the search for qualified cybersecurity professionals is intense. However, Columbus State University’s Cybersecurity Nexus Program is doing more than just filling job openings; it is dramatically changing students' lives and shaping the region’s economic future.  Through a unique blend of rigorous academics, hands-on training and deep industry integration, the program has become a beacon for students ranging from recent high school graduates to single parents seeking a second career—or a second chance.  For many students like Jeff Griffin , the program marks a turning point from “just getting by” to finding a true calling. The 36-year-old single father describes his experience attending classes during the day and bartending at night as “long and arduous,” but ultimately life-changing.  “The program gave me far more than an education—it gave me the life of my dreams,” Griffin said of the confidence it gave him to quit his full-time s...

In July of last year, we reported on the Synovus Center's new high-tech classroom funded by a generous donation from Jackie Hamilton meant to honor her father Bill Hamilton , a retired professor of management and the first MBA Program Director in the Turner College. That post reported that  the Turner College was proudly unveiling a state-of-the-art synchronous classroom on the third floor of the Synovus Center on CSU's main campus. At that time the room was equipped with technology that makes it possible for students joining a class remotely to have as full a learning experience as those who are physically in the room. Large screens were dedicated to each remote student with separate cameras and microphones. In addition, the classroom had several breakout rooms that allow small groups of students (both in person and remote) to hold discussions and work on projects together without the distractions of the noise from other groups. Unfortunately for Turner College students and f...

A September 2025 post here at Turner Business reported on new research by Center for Economic Education Director Frank Mixon and the University of New Haven's Kamal Upadhyaya that offers the first examination of why some U.S. states have established sovereign wealth funds while others have not. In doing so Mixon and Upadhyaya find that various demographic and economic variables explain this choice. More specifically, linear probability, probit and Bayesian maximum likelihood analyses indicate that less populated, high-income and land-and oil-rich states are more likely than their more populated, lower-income and resource-poor counterparts to currently possess a sovereign wealth fund. Additionally, spending on K-12 education per pupil in a state is negatively related to the likelihood the state owns a sovereign wealth fund, perhaps because states that spend more heavily on education have limited absorptive capacities relative to the scale of their resource revenues. Lastly, p...

Turner College alum  Tamara Todorova continues to have a productive academic career with her recent study of the determinants of the average price level. Now a member of the economics at American University in Bulgaria, Todorova's recent publication in Economies provides a mathematical approach to understand the effect of demand shifters such as consumer income and the level of advertising on the average price level in a simple partial market equilibrium model. The study then discusses the effect of supply shifters such as the exogenous tax level, worker wage, rental rate, and technology. While government spending triggers inflation, taxes have the opposite effect. Money supply increases national income and prices while reducing the equilibrium interest rate. Therefore, money supply has pro-inflationary effects. The effect of money demand is the opposite—it increases the equilibrium interest rate, thereby lowering national income and prices. Augmentin...