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Turner College News & Notes: October 5, 2026

According to reports from readers, CSU is expanding the reach of its advertising in the effort to secure a new dean of the Turner College to include placement of ads with The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed . Additionally, an advertisement on the AACSB's website is also forthcoming. These will certainly boost attempts to provide a thorough search, although time is running out for applications to be submitted for the truncated search that is expected to name a new dean in December. A check by Turner Business indicates that these new advertising outlets are not yet displaying an ad for the Turner College. Thus, prospective candidates must apply through the Buffkin/Baker portal at the moment. The window for applications is scheduled to close on October 23, 2026. In other news, the Turner College Awards & Scholarship Committee has initiated contact with the CSU Office of Human Resources in hopes of expediting the return of monetary stipends accompanying the Tur...
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Asking Google AI: Where Should an Advertisement for a New Business School Dean be Placed?

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: Where should an advertisement for a new business school dean be placed?  Below is an image of Google AI's thorough response. According to Google AI, to find a traditional academic scholar to serve as a business school dean there are three "standard, non-negotiable platforms" to utilize in the search. Two of these are The Chronicle of Higher Education  and Inside Higher Ed , and Turner Business has been discussing for some time how Buffkin/Baker opted to not utilize either of these, or the third option, HigherEdJobs . According to Google AI, these three platforms are "widely monitored by sitting deans, associate deans, and...
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Is the Search for a New Turner College Dean Focused Inward?

With only three weeks remaining for candidates to submit applications for consideration in the search for a new Turner College dean, it appears as though the advertisement for the position will not appear in either The Chronicle of Higher Education or  Inside Higher Ed , nor on CSU's employment portal webpages or the AACSB's website. Combined with the brevity of a search that is expected to have a candidate selected in December, the decision by Buffkin/Baker to make the application process available only through its website has readers of Turner Business somewhat perplexed. One reader has suggested, however, that these decisions make sense if the goal is to hire someone who is already affiliated with a USG-member institution. That sounds reasonable, and perhaps the first pool of candidates in this case would be individuals currently serving as associate deans within the business schools at the eight institutions in the top two USG institutional tiers. Among the research univer...
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CSU's Strategic Communication + Marketing Office Announces Turner College Dean Opening on LinkedIn

CSU's Executive Director of Strategic Communication + Marketing, Michael Tullier, announced on his LinkedIn page this morning that CSU is in the exciting time of searching for new deans to lead its business school and its letters and sciences college. Tullier's LinkedIn post (see below) also includes weblinks to separate CSU pages describing the search process and expectations for each opening. These are the pages that CSU Provost Dustin Anderson referred to in his Fall 2026 welcome back presentation to Turner College faculty and staff in August. Our visit to the webpage linked in Tullier's LinkedIn post provides its own link to a glossy digital brochure containing information about CSU and the Turner College.   Despite these developments, the job opening has not yet been included on the jobs portal on CSU's own website. Even more importantly, it has yet to appear in The Chronicle of Higher Education , the gold standard for announcements of executive openings in academi...
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CSU President Stuart Rayfield Updates CSU Faculty Senate on Depressing Enrollment Trends

CSU President Stuart Rayfield provided a Fall 2026 enrollment update during the Sept-2026 CSU Faculty Senate meeting. According to Rayfield, enrollment has fallen by 3% since Fall 2025. Additionally, student credit hour production is down 3.4% this fall compared to Fall 2025. Within these statistics, the number of new undergraduates attending CSU rose by 7.7% between Fall 2025 and Fall 2026. The number of graduate students is up 1.6% over this same time frame. While the good news is that the retention of first-time full-time freshmen enrollment is up to 75% compared to Fall 2025's 72%, retention of all undergraduate students is down, as is graduate student retention. Both of these numbers are down 6.2%. According to Rayfield, if this trend had remained flat, CSU would have been up on recruitment. These returning students will keep CSU down for several years even if it retains students.
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Turner College Freshman Shaun Williams Recently Named CSU Student-Athlete of the Week by Chick-Fil-A

Columbus State University men's cross-country freshman Shaun Williams was recently named the Columbus State Athletics Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by Chick-fil-A on Macon Road and Manchester Expressway. Williams captured the individual title at the Willie Laster Invitational on Friday, September 11, completing the men's 8K in 27:38.90. He crossed the finish line nearly 25 seconds ahead of the runner-up. Williams led a dominant performance by the Cougars, who placed five runners among the top six and won the team title with 19 points. Columbus State finished 44 points ahead of second-place Morehouse. The Macon, Georgia, native attended Jones County High School and is majoring in management information systems. His favorite television show is All American .
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Turner College News & Notes: September 30, 2026

The CSU women's soccer team recently recognized a number of CSU faculty and staff as having an impact in their lives, and three individuals with Turner College connections were among the group. First, Charles Boster (third from right in the accompanying photo), an associate professor of accounting in the Turner College, was recognized by the team. Turner College MSOL graduate Cortney Wilson (fourth from right in the accompanying photo), the Brown Endowed Chair for Servant Leadership and Director of CSU's Turner Center for Servant Leadership, and Turner College MSOL graduate Laura Pate  (fifth from left in the accompanying photo), Assistant Director of CSU's Turner Center for Servant Leadership, were also recognized by the Lady Cougars. Congratulations to these three.   Another Turner College MSOL degree holder, Samantha Miller Gurski , the  Director, Continuing and Professional Education at CSU, recently spoke to Columbus CEO magazine. During the presentation, Gurksi d...
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