Turner Business

Earlier this week the job posting for the Turner College's new Development Officer went live. According to the posting, the Development Officer will report to the Chief Advancement Officer and will be primarily responsible for identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding mid-level and principal gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations. Retaining current donors is a crucial aspect of the Development Officer's role, as it helps ensure ongoing support for CSU. This role involves developing and executing strategic fundraising plans, managing donor relationships, coordinating appeals campaigns, and contributing to the overall success of advancement efforts. The Development Officer will collaborate with various stakeholders, alumni relations, and other university departments, to align fundraising activities with the academic priorities and goals of CSU as defined by the CSU President. This position will primarily be responsible for raising private philanthropic s...

With CSU's enrollments falling over the past two years, causing the institution to brace for enrollment-based budget cuts, it is especially important that state tax revenues remain strong so that baseline support for CSU is not threatened. In that regard, Ty Tagami's recent report for Capitol Beat brings some good news. Tagami explains that  Georgia tax revenue continued rising in July, bolstered by strong receipts from the sales and use tax, which sent more money to local governments.  Net tax collections were $2.57 billion, up $78.1 million from July 2025. According to Tagama, this  3.1% increase came despite a 2.1% year-over-year drop in collections from the individual income tax.  That $27.1 million decline from July of last year was, as Tagami writes, counterbalanced by soaring receipts from the corporate income tax, which rose 34.3%, up $18.4 million. As Capitol Beat notes, t he decline in individual income tax revenue continues a slide from June, when indivi...

Turner College adjunct professor Andrea Parker recently participated in a roundtable discussion at the Women in Private Wealth conference in Nashville. The roundtable was titled  Beyond the 60/40: Adapting to the Evolving Fixed Income Market . "Our conversation covered a lot of ground — from the evolving role of fixed income in portfolio construction and opportunities across the yield curve and credit markets, to Fed policy, tight credit spreads, correlations and AI, and how to be positioned in fixed income as we look ahead," Parker explained. Sponsored by Markets Group, the even brought together personnel from Pinnacle Financial, namely Holly Murrell, Brittany McKee, Miriam Baird, Amy Cho, Hope Williams and Tammy Holland, with Parker's colleagues in The Family Office at Synovus — Jordan Pritchard, Turner College alum  Caroline Moyer and Jennifer Pratt. " I’m thrilled to be surrounded by these women who bring so much talent, perspective, and leadership to our indus...

Columbus State University’s Faculty Senate begins the 2026-27 academic year with Judith Livingston serving as its executive officer, and Katherine Cannon, GCPCA continues to chair the Staff Council for a second consecutive year. Livingston will serve as the Faculty Senate’s executive officer. The Faculty Senate provides a representative voice in university operations for more than 550 full- and part-time faculty and functions through a structure of elected officers and college senators. A professor in the Department of English, Livingston has served on the Columbus State faculty since 2011 after teaching roles at Louisiana State University, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and Tulane University. She recently chaired the university’s Department of English and is currently one of Georgia’s 16 Governor’s Teaching Fellows. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Davidson College, a master’s in English from North Carolina State University, and a Ph.D. in English from L...

A new study by Butler Center Director Fady Mansour ,  Stefani Milovanska-Farrington of Florida Polytechnic University,  Nour Kattih of Middle Tennessee State University  and  Mohammed Saeed of King Abdulaziz University investigates whether the mandatory submission of answers to practice questions improves students’ performance on the practice quizzes and subsequent economics exams. As the study explains, it is well-known that practice helps students learn because taking a quiz or exam requires recalling information – a phenomenon referred to the academic l iterature as the “testing effect.” To explore this effect, Mansour and his co-authors  collected data from five sections (three face-to-face and two online) of an introductory macroeconomics course at a four-year public university located in the southern United States. Three of these five sections were assigned optional test preparation questions before the first exam during the semester, whereas the other tw...

Almost one year ago Turner Business reported on research that was conducted by Turner College economist Frank Mixon , along with colleagues Ján Buleca and Maryna Tatar of the Technical University of Košice, and Ermanno Affuso of the University of South Alabama, evaluating the effects of external shocks, primarily domestic armed conflicts, on the market equilibrium in residential energy and assesses their impact on consumer welfare. Since that time the study has undergone substantial revisions and is forthcoming in a future issue of Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy . Their revised study utilizes a  global, rather than local, exposure measure representing annual variation in realized armed conflict activity worldwide. This construction is aligned with the mechanism examined in the paper, according to which worldwide armed conflicts may affect open European energy markets through internationally integrated commodity markets, sanctions, shipping disruptions, insurance...