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Deployment of Turner College Business Faculty Across UG Academic Programs ― A Look at the Numbers

This post takes a look at the deployment of business faculty in the Turner College across each of its undergraduate academic programs, which include accounting, finance, management, marketing and MIS. The table below lists the names of the tenured and tenure-track faculty who are servicing each of the five majors. As indicated in the table, three accounting faculty, Jasmine Bordere , Charles Boster and Fonda Carter , constitute the corps of instruction for that academic major. An October 2025 post here at Turner Business indicates that this discipline currently has 87 majors, meaning that there are 29.0 accounting majors in the Turner College for each accounting professor. Next, the table points out that four faculty, Joshua Brooks , Brett Cotten , Gisung Moon and Uma Sridharan , serve the 113 finance majors in the Turner College. This means that there are 28.3 finance majors in the Turner College for each finance professor. With 11 management faculty, including Phil Bryant , John ...
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Turner College-Affiliated Career Success Coach to become New Director of the Ralph Puckett Workforce Development Center at Columbus Technical College

Turner College faculty, staff and students were notified today that Kate Vogel , the College's affiliated Career Success Coach in CSU's Center for Career Coaching, will be leaving her position to serve as the new Director of the  Ralph Puckett Workforce Development Center at Columbus Technical College. As explained by Vogel, " It has been a true privilege to work alongside [Turner College faculty and staff] and to engage with [Turner College] students. Supporting their professional growth, helping them clarify their goals, and preparing them for meaningful careers has been incredibly rewarding. I am deeply grateful for your partnership, referrals, classroom collaborations, and the trust [Turner College faculty and staff] placed in me to work with [Turner College] students." The  Ralph Puckett Workforce Development Center  is named after Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Ralph Puckett Jr., a war hero with strong connections to Fort Benning. Groundbreaking for...
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Good News in Georgia's State Budget for Turner College Faculty and Staff

According to information provided in Ty Tagami's recent report for Capitol Beat , there is good news ahead for Turner College faculty and staff. In recent days  Georgia lawmakers reached a compromise on the mid-year budget, fulfilling priorities of Georgia's House, Senate and Governor's Office. The process was not without ups and downs, however, given that in order t o overcome an impasse after the state House and state Senate took money from each other’s priorities — and from Gov. Brian Kemp’s — to pay for their own projects, Kemp had to dig up an extra $1.4 billion in surplus funds.  So, as Tagami indicates the amended fiscal year budget for 2026 that was a $42.3 billion is now nearly $43.7 billion.  A chunk of that is for one-time givebacks to taxpayers.  The Georgia House put $850 million into the budget for property tax rebates to Georgia homeowners. Governor  Kemp originally placed $250 income tax rebates ($500 for couples filing jointly) into his budget r...
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Turner College Alum Sharai Brown Offers Advice on "Advice"

CSU alum Sharai Brown  graduated from the Turner College with a degree in marketing in 2019. Since then, she has worked as Brand Advocate Analyst for Home Depot, a management consultant with Accenture, and most recently as a customer experience management consultant with A&MPLIFY by Alvarez and Marsal. Sharai recently posted some advice on "advice" to her LinkedIn page that Turner Business decided to pass along. "I’ve been thinking a lot about hindsight lately.  There have been moments in my life where I was given solid advice — advice that, if applied sooner, could have led to stronger relationships, better decisions, and more stability. But at the time, I didn’t fully act on it.  Not because I didn’t value it — but because I wasn’t always equipped to apply it yet.  Sometimes advice is like being told to make peanut butter from scratch — valuable, even better for you — but difficult to execute if you don’t yet understand the process, tools, or steps to begin....
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TSYS School Computer Science Students Invited to STEM Career Fair on March 3

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics students at CSU now have a career fair just for themselves. CSU's Center for Career Coaching is hosting a STEM Career Fair on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm in the Schwob Memorial Library on CSU's main campus. This is an opportunity for STEM students, including computer science students in the TSYS School, to  connect with employers, explore internship and career opportunities, and take the next step toward your future in STEM.  Don’t miss this opportunity to network and level up your career path. See you there.
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New Data Reverse Previously Reported Enrollment Gains

Another set of updated enrollment figures was released during the CSU Faculty Senate's February 2026 meeting. According to CSU President Stuart Rayfield, Spring 2026 enrollment  is down by 2.28% in terms of head count, and down 1.89% in terms of student credit hours. During the January 2026 Faculty Senate meeting, Rayfield indicated that Spring 2026 enrollment is up 2.0% in terms of headcount and 2.25% in terms of student credit hours. Thus, the updated enrollment numbers represent percentage point swings of  −4.28 and − 4.14, respectively, from last month's numbers, which were, at that time, referenced as indicators of a rebound from the enrollment decline in Fall 2025. The new Spring 2026 numbers are now being characterized as "less of a drop" than those from Fall 2025. Next, it was also reported that applications for Fall 2026 are down, and that the new graduate student headcount is down 7%. On the positive side, the new undergraduate student headcount is up 10%, ...
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Turner College's Kirk Heriot to Discuss Entrepreneurship at Graduate School's "Lunch and Learn" on March 11

According to the latest edition of the CSU Graduate Bulletin , Turner College management professor Kirk Heriot will be presenting at the next "Lunch and Learn" seminar hosted by the Schwob Library on CSU's main campus. According to the Bulletin, this event offers ". . .  an exciting opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship . . . with Heriot," who holds the Crowley Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship. This presentation is scheduled for W ednesday, March 11, 2026, from  12:00 pm to 1:00 pm in the Library Forum.
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