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Yesterday afternoon Turner College faculty and staff held the organization's November 2026 meeting and at the beginning Interim Dean Tesa Leonce announced that the start date for the next Turner College dean has been pushed back from January 1, 2027, to at least July 1, 2027. This decision was predicted by Turner Business as early as mid-September and as recently as yesterday. However, no explanation for the schedule adjustment was provided by Turner College administration at yesterday's meeting, and Turner College faculty and staff have not heard from the search committee or the Buffkin/Baker search firm since the search-related  listening sessions ended back on August 28, 2026. This is the kind of situation that, in a general sense, our inaugural "Asking Google AI" blog discussed back on September 18, 2026. Stay connected to Turner Business for the latest news.  

Two months ago, we asked Google AI to provide the probability that a successful search for a new business school dean could occur by the dates established for the current search for a new Turner College dean. We were told less than 5%.  We've reached mid-November 2026 and the search for a new dean of CSU's Turner College has yet to yield, at least publicly, the three or four finalists needed to reach a decision by early December so that the successful candidate can take the position in January 2027. Next week is the final week for most fall semester 2026 courses at CSU, and the following week is accounted for by the Thanksgiving Holidays. After next week, CSU will not be open for business again until the last day of November. At that point faculty, staff and students will be focused on final exams, graduation ceremonies, and the upcoming Christmas holiday season. Because bringing three or four finalists to campus during this time would pose logistical problems, the search is n...

Since joining the TSYS School in 2020, Linqiang Ge 's teaching and scholarship have centered on transforming cybersecurity and computer science education through evidence-based, high-impact pedagogical innovations. Guided by the principles of the scholarship of teaching and learning, he has systematically studied how hands-on, research-driven, and collaborative learning approaches enhance student understanding, engagement, and professional readiness. My scholarship of teaching and learning efforts have been supported by more than $197,000 in funded teaching and curriculum grants from the National Security Agency, Teach Access, Affordable Learning Georgia, and CSU. These initiatives have strengthened Ge's ability to integrate authentic research experiences into coursework, establish inclusive computing laboratories, and expand outreach in cybersecurity education. One of his most significant scholarship of teaching and learning projects centers on CYBR 3136 – Wireless and Network...

Service to CSU, to teaching CSU students, and to the Columbus community have been hallmarks of Turner College finance professor Joshua Brooks ' tenure. He has taught multiple course overloads the last few semesters, including one this semester due to the retirement of a former colleague. He has also served on eight Honors College thesis committees, including one as chair, in recent years. Brooks has also been an integral part of CSU's new River Course program for new students, having developed and delivered his own RIVR course. He currently serves as the MBA Director in the Turner College and is chair of the Turner College's Assurance of Learning Committee. At the University level, Brooks is an active member of the CSU Faculty Senate, where he serves on the Faculty Handbook Committee, the Faculty Affairs Committee, and is chair of the Budget Advisory Committee. Lastly, Brooks' service activities are not bound by the property lines of CSU's main campus. He is a scien...

As Jordyn Paul-Slater writes for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer , "[w]hile Columbus puts more emphasis on entrepreneurship as a piece of its economic development strategy, four founders will get their chance to pitch business ideas they hope could grow along with the region." Paul-Slater is referring to the four finalists, selected from 65 applicants representing Columbus and cities within a 150-mile radius, who will compete for $40,000 at the StartUP Columbus LaunchCon, a Shark Tank -style competition, this Friday. One of these finalists is Victor Nguyen , a 2018 graduate of the TSYS School who has founded Prestige Foods, a business-to-business (B2B) software platform designed to modernize the seafood supply chain by bringing purchasing, inventory, pricing, ordering, invoicing, delivery and profitability data into one ordering app. According to Paul-Slater's report, Nguyen's product was borne from experiencing repetitive difficulties in communication between suppliers ...

As Jordyn Paul-Slater writes for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer , "[w]hile Columbus puts more emphasis on entrepreneurship as a piece of its economic development strategy, four founders will get their chance to pitch business ideas they hope could grow along with the region." Paul-Slater is referring to the four finalists, selected from 65 applicants representing Columbus and cities within a 150-mile radius, who will compete for $40,000 at the StartUP Columbus LaunchCon, a Shark Tank -style competition, this Friday. One of these finalists is Sergio Garcia, who cofounded (with Kevin DeMarco and Collin Farrill) RIF Robotics, an Atlanta-based and MedTech startup that uses artificial intelligence, computer vision and robotics to automate the assembly and sterilization of hospital surgical instruments. According to Paul-Slater's report, in 2021 Garcia and his cofounders completed a customer-discovery project in collaboration with the Veterans Affairs Network wherein nurses, surg...