Turner Business

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...

In this blog entry Turner Business is re-visiting the data compiled to examine average class sizes in undergraduate courses belonging to the five business majors in the Turner College. This time we are looking at course enrollments with ACCT, FINC, MGMT, MISM and MKTG prefixes, with special attention to face-to-face enrollments vs. online enrollments. The data are shown in the table below. As shown in the table above, of the 359 students enrolled in accounting's 12 Fall 2026 course sections, 192 of these will be in class while 167 will be online. The breakdown here is 53.5% in class and 46.5% online. Finance courses lean even more toward in class, with 147 of its 221 students, or 66.5%, attending class and only 74 of its 221 students, or 33.5%, enrolled online. The Department of Accounting and Finance is chaired by Gisung Moon . Over in the Department of Management and Marketing, which is chaired by John Finley , the numbers look much different. For example, only 58 of the 304 stu...

Heading into the fall semester Turner Business decided to examine the average class sizes of the business courses offered by the Turner College in subjects where students can earn a degree, either undergraduate or graduate. At the undergraduate level this list would include accounting (ACCT), finance (FINC), management (MGMT), management information systems (MISM) and marketing (MKTG). At the graduate level there is the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Science in Organizational Leadership (MSOL), the latter of which also includes courses in human resources (MSHR) and servant leadership (MSSL). The data are shown in the table below. As shown in the table above, the average class size in management, 33.8 students, exceeds that in every other undergraduate major. Its closest rival is marketing, with an average class size of 31.0 students, followed by accounting, with an average class size of 29.9 students. Bringing up the rear is finance, with an average class size o...

During the Turner College's welcome back gathering on August 4, 2026, Student Success Manager Talisha Lockhart  unveiled a new pilot program, Peer Academic Leaders (PALs), designed to elevate the academic performance of business and computer science students. According to the plan, the Turner College's undergraduate student tutors will be replaced with graduate students holding undergraduate degrees in business or computer science who will devote time to working with groups of students on team projects, sometimes during class sessions, that are required in the courses of study. Although some hours will remain dedicated to one-to-one tutoring, Lockhart noted that this "more student-focused approach" is geared to the kind of academic assistance that today's students require. As we often do, Turner Business scooped this news back in July when we reported that the College was looking to hire Peer Academic Leaders. According to that report, and Monster.com , the new ...

Columbus State University has appointed Bryan Banks as the Dean of Libraries & Archives. A member of the university’s faculty since 2018, he has served as Interim Dean of Libraries & Graduate School since 2024.  In his new role, Banks will lead the CSU library network’s strategic vision, academic planning and operations. This network features the Simon Schwob Memorial Library on Main Campus, as well as specialized art and music libraries at the RiverPark Campus. With nearly 300,000 items in its collections, the libraries provide informational access to all programs on campus. Additionally, it includes the Archives & Special Collections, charged with preserving university and regional history, along with maintaining more than 500 distinct collections that include the renowned J. Kyle Spencer Map Collection and a developing military history archive.  “[Bryan] Banks has outlined a vision for the CSU Libraries that enhances our students’ and faculty’s academic, researc...

Finance professor and chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance, Gisung Moon , has been named as the Turner College's Assessment Director. According to Interim Dean Tesa Leonce 's announcement at Tuesday's Fall 2026 meeting, the Assessment Director works collaboratively with the Assurance of Learning Committee to provide leadership, coordination, and oversight of all assessment activities supporting AACSB and SACS accreditation requirements. In this role Moon will manage and monitor learning outcomes across all academic programs, (1) ensuring that assessment processes and outcomes align with institutional and accreditation standards and (2) promoting a culture of continuous improvement through the systematic evaluation of student learning. The Turner College is halfway through the current AACSB reaccreditation cycle, which spans six years. The College earned (re)accreditation multiple times under the leadership of former Dean Linda Hadley, and once during Deborah Ki...