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Enrollments in Turner College's MSOL Program Showing Cracks

The past academic year (i.e., 2025-26) was marked by indicators pointing to troubling trends regarding CSU's enrollment. New information paints a similar picture for the beginning of the 2026-27 academic year. Turner College administrators recently cancelled four fall semester course sections in its MSOL program. These sections, which include MSOL 6135, MSOL 6155, MSOL 6165 and MSOL 6175, were cancelled due to low enrollment. Two of these sections had 10 students enrolled on the date of cancellation, while the remaining two course sections enrolled seven and five students, respectively. This decision establishes a minimum enrollment of at least 11 students, if not more, for fall business courses to be considered populated enough to avoid cancellation. To further consider what these decisions mean for the MSOL program, the table below shows current enrollments by course section for fall 2026. Note that with the above course section cancellations, there are no courses for which multi...
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Army Sergeant Pursuing Two Bachelor’s Degrees while Serving in Operation Epic Fury

On 6-April of this year we posted a blog about the academic achievements of Turner College student Indigo Pullen . Recently, CSU produced a press release on Pullen's extraordinary scholastic accomplishments. Below is that press release from Averi Morton.  Indigo Pullen is balancing more than most college students ever will.  As a 46S sergeant in the U.S. Army, Pullen serves as a public affairs mass communication specialist, producing news stories, capturing photography and video, and sharing the Army’s mission with audiences around the world.  “One of my favorite aspects of public affairs work is being able to capture authentic moments and humanize experiences people may never personally see,” she said. “I love telling stories that make people feel connected to others and understood.”  In addition to being deployed in the Middle East on active duty, she’s working toward earning two degrees at Columbus State University: a bachelor of business administration in entrep...

Turner College Alum Mat Edmunds Named Director of Graduate Admissions in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University

Turner College alum Mat Edmunds has been named the new Director of Graduate Admissions for the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Edmunds, who earned an MSOL degree from the Turner College in 2019, has spent the past six  years as the Director of Graduate Admissions for the Stetson-Hatcher School of Business at Mercer University. Congratulations to Mat on this phenomenal professional achievement.

Finance Professor Uma Sridharan Retires from the Turner College

Turner College professor of finance Uma Sridharan is completing her last semester on the faculty at CSU. Sridharan joined the Turner College (as Chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance) about 10 years ago from Lander University. She won the 2023 Turner College Online Teaching Award, while, four years earlier (in 2019), she received CSU's Educator of the Year Award. Over the course of her academic career, Sridharan published research in Financial Management , Financial Review , International Journal of Auditing and Supply Chain Management , all classified as A-level journal outlets. She closes her academic career with 675 Google Scholar citations, a number that will continue to climb in the years to come. Turner Business congratulates Sridharan on her retirement and wishes her the best going forward.

Turner College Alum Brett Reichert Earns PhD from Cornell University

CSU alum Brett Reichert enrolled in the Turner College's MSOL program in 2013 as an Aide-de-Camp Infantry Commandant in the U.S. Army and a graduate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Kentucky. He completed the degree requirements for the MSOL degree in 2014 and three years later, in 2017, began pursuit of a master's degree in policy management at Georgetown University. During this period, he rose to Aide-de-Camp Deputy Commanding General, Regional Command East in Afghanistan, and then over to Company Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. After completing the master's degree program at Georgetown University, Reichert moved to a staff position in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later to Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army. Prior to entering Cornell University, he served as a Brigade Executive Officer in the 4th Infantry Division. Reichert's most recent professional experience is Battalion Commander in...

The USG Announces Institutional Admissions Standards for 2026-27 and 2027-28

During the academic year 2025-2026 that is now coming to a close, t he University System of Georgia (USG) continued its temporary waiver of test score requirements. With state colleges already test optional, this meant no test scores were required for admission at 22 of USG’s 25 public colleges and universities.  The temporary waiver did not apply to the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia and Georgia College & State University.  For academic year 2025-2026, the 22 remaining institutions had two options for making admissions decisions: (1)  schools could use the Freshman Index formula that includes the student’s high school grade point average and test scores for either the SAT or ACT, and (2)  schools could use a test-optional approach that considers a student’s grade point average on the required high school curriculum without a standardized test score at various minimum grade point averages. For Augusta University and Georgia State Unive...

Georgia Trend Magazine Publishes Economic Profile of Columbus

Georgia Trend magazine's Jennifer Hafer recently penned a lengthy report on the Columbus economy that readers of Turner Business might find useful. The text of that report appears below.