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Once again CSU's fall enrollment is down, this time by 2.8% from Fall 2025 to Fall 2026. When compared to Fall 2024, this fall's enrollment is down 5.8% overall. Although the Turner College's slide, currently at 2.4%, from Fall 2025 to this year tracks that of the overall institution, its drop since Fall 2024 is 8.6%, well beyond the institution's retreat since that same time. Enrollment in the College of Letters and Sciences is experiencing an enrollment decline of 4.5% since Fall 2025, and an 8.4% drop since Fall 2024. The College of Education and Health Professions hasn't experienced the same size drop, with its enrollment declining by only 1.0% since last year, and by only 2.1% since Fall 2024. The College of the Arts, on the other hand, has seen worse trends. Its enrollment has dipped by 4.5% since Fall 2025, and by 11.6% since Fall 2024. In response to these trends, CSU Provost Dustin Anderson informed Turner College faculty and staff that the institution is t...

Raquel Aponte of CSU's Center for Global Engagement spoke to Turner College faculty and staff on Tuesday about study abroad opportunities coming this year for CSU students. To facilitate engagement from students, the CGE has scheduled a Study Abroad Fair on September 24, 2026, from 10:00am to 3:00pm and the clock tower on CSU's main campus. Turner College MIS professor Insung Hwang joined Aponte in announcing that Turner College and TSYS School students will have the opportunity to study in South Korea from May 19 through June 2, 2027. Attending students will visit three cities, namely Seoul, Gwangju and Jinju, chosen by Hwang and Turner College finance professor Gisung Moon during a site visit the duo made this summer. According to Hwang, the theme of next year's trip is to "explore intersections of history, culture and industry. Students will be able to tour the Samsung Innovation Museum and the Hyundai Motor Studio, among others. Hwang closed his presentation by n...

CSU's Center for Career Coaching has assigned Jamie Thomas to serve as the new Career Coach liaison for the Turner College. Career Coaches partner with Student Success Coaches in preparing students for academic and professional success. Thomas, who holds a B.S. in management from Troy University, will be working with Turner College business and computer science students through classroom presentations, headshots in the Center's photo booth, professional dress utilizing resources in the Center's Career Closet, and internships. The Center has already scheduled the Fall 2026 Career Fair. It will be held on September 24, 2026, in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Recreation Center. Turner Business welcomes Thomas, who is new to Columbus, to the CSU community.

According to CSU Provost Dustin Anderson's recent report to the CSU Faculty Senate, the search for the next Turner College Dean will begin with listening sessions that will kick off in January of 2027. The search, which is being chaired by Margie Yates, is being conducted to replace former Turner College Dean Deborah Kidder, who now leads the business school at Kutztown University. Anderson also reported that the Buffkin Baker search firm will be handling the process. In announcing Kidder's removal as dean late in fall semester 2025, Turner College faculty and staff were informed that the search for her replacement would begin in January 2026, and that former Turner College Associate Dean Tesa Leonce would serve as Acting Dean through the summer of 2026. If Kidder's replacement were not on board by August of 2026, Turner College faculty were told that Leonce would shift to Interim Dean for the 2026-2027 academic year and that the search for Kidder's replacement would b...

As regular followers of Turner Business are aware, we often take a look at the Google Scholar citations to the published research of the Turner College business faculty. This post takes a different view of these data by examining the number of Google Scholar citations picked up this calendar year. For example, so far this year research by the 23 faculty making up the corps of business instruction has garnered 796 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 34.6 Google Scholar citations per faculty. When the three administrative are also considered, these numbers are 813 and 31.3, respectively. Next, the 14 faculty comprising the corps of instruction in the Department of Management & Marketing have generated 504 Google Scholar citations so far this year, resulting in an average of 36.0 Google Scholar citations per faculty. After including administrative faculty, these numbers are 508 and 33.9, respectively. Lastly, the nine faculty making up the corps of instruction in the Departme...

The Turner College welcomes Andrea Parker to its finance faculty. Parker will be serving as an adjunct professor of finance  alongside her continued work with The Family Office at Synovus. " Throughout my career in investment management, I've been fortunate to learn from outstanding colleagues, mentors, clients, and countless market experiences that have shaped the way I think about investing. I'm looking forward to bringing some of that real-world perspective into the classroom here in our community. My hope is to inspire students to connect the principles they learn in academic finance with the realities of capital markets and portfolio management," she explained. Parker is the Director of Portfolio Management Fixed Income in The Family Office. She earned a bachelor's degree in finance and investments from Xavier University. " A special thank you to Dr. Gisung Moon for your persistence and encouragement in helping make this opportunity possible. I'm g...