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The new CSU Presidential Fellows group was formed this year as a way for CSU students and faculty to meet  with CSU President Stuart Rayfield each month to discuss how to improve CSU's culture and promote an environment of trust, inclusion and well-being for all. During the October 2026 meeting on October 19th, the Presidential Fellows discussed low CSU faculty morale and the prevailing climate of distrust, anxiety, and uncertainty on campus. Two solutions emerged from that discussion. First, although  it may be infeasible to address every single issue openly with the faculty, Rayfield noted that she and CSU Provost Dustin Anderson are happy to visit any departmental or college meeting in order to listen to the pressing issues facing that department or college. Rayfield also indicated to the group that she  would like to know which issues the faculty want her to address in a town hall setting. The Presidential Fellows decided to collect data from the faculty before their ...

As we await official enrollment numbers to be released, we recently asked Google AI to provide some of the enrollment trends and changes for fall 2026 at the University System of Georgia's institutions. That query indicated that Georgia State University 's enrollment increased by 1.24% from last fall, reaching an institution record enrollment of 54,320 students. At the University of Georgia , more than 51,600 student applications were processed for entry in fall 2026, a record for the institution. UGA projected an incoming class of 6,250 students. Georgia College & State University received more than 10,000 student applications for the first time in its history. At Fort Valley State University, 3,310 new students were welcomed this fall, representing an enrollment increase of 27% overall. Next, South Georgia State College  reported strong early-semester numbers with 2,086 students, an 8.25% year-over-year increase fueled by an 18.64% surge in new student enrollment.   Geo...

Only five days remain for the submission of applications in the search for a new dean of the Turner College. At the end of business on Friday, the final applications will have been received, and the Buffkin/Baker search firm will begin guiding the search committee, chaired by CoEHP Dean Margie Yates, through the process of combing through curriculum vitae in an effort to secure three to four finalists. As of today, the advertisement for the position appears on the Buffkin/Baker search portal, on the AACSB's webpage, and at HigherEdJobs, while it missed The Chronicle of Higher Education  and Inside Higher Ed .     

It's Friday evening and you are probably sitting down with your favorite take-out meal or are preparing to go out for dinner. To add to the enjoyment of your end-of-week relaxation time, Turner Business is now providing a new occasional series for Friday evenings called Asking Google AI. Tonight we are asking Google AI the following question: How much money do universities pay search firms for conducting searches for business deans?  Below is an image of Google AI's thorough response. As explained by Google AI, universities typically pay executive search firms between $60,000 and $250,000+ to conduct a search for a business school dean. As it adds, the exact amount is highly variable because it depends on the university's prestige, whether it is public or private, and the fee model used by the firm. Based on the first two of these, CSU likely paid closer to the low end of the above continuum. CSU also almost certainly agreed to a fixed flat-fee model, where fees range from...

A new study by TSYS School computer scientist Yi Zhou and TSYS School students Prudhvi Raj Nelapatla and Elijah Starkey  asserts that the rapid growth of large language models has made training energy efficiency  a major systems and sustainability challenge. As they explain, training requires substantial computation,  memory, communication, and electrical energy, yet the literature often treats runtime,  floating-point operations, memory, communication, cost, energy, and carbon as inter changeable indicators of efficiency. To examine these issues, the trio of researchers  critically reviewed 54 research papers and  one supporting software tool across measurement and carbon accounting, model and  numerical efficiency, memory and communication, distributed planning, GPU power con trol, carbon-aware scheduling, lifecycle design, and reliability. They classified evidence as  direct, modeled, simulated, reported-comparison, or enabling, while they in...

The Turner College Awards & Scholarships Committee is making progress to restore the financial stipends to the organization's annual faculty and staff awards. The committee chair, management professor Mark James , has been working overtime to provide the needed information to Kimberly Gill,  the Interim Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs in the CSU Provost's Office and point-person for that office on this project. As explained by Gill, under the USG Incentive Compensation and Rewards Policy, any award with a monetary value must be part of an incentive plan approved by the USG Office of Fiscal Affairs and Office of Human Resources before it may be awarded or paid. Individual college awards are not submitted to the System Office individually. Instead, they must be included in CSU's institutional incentive plan. The approval process for that to happen requires information be provided to the USG regarding (1) purpose, (2) eligibility, (3) nomination process, (4) award c...