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Only five days remain for the submission of applications in the search for a new dean of the Turner College. At the end of business on Friday, the final applications will have been received, and the Buffkin/Baker search firm will begin guiding the search committee, chaired by CoEHP Dean Margie Yates, through the process of combing through curriculum vitae in an effort to secure three to four finalists. As of today, the advertisement for the position appears on the Buffkin/Baker search portal, on the AACSB's webpage, and at HigherEdJobs, while it missed The Chronicle of Higher Education  and Inside Higher Ed .     

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: How much money do universities pay search firms for conducting searches for business deans?  Below is an image of Google AI's thorough response. As explained by Google AI, universities typically pay executive search firms between $60,000 and $250,000+ to conduct a search for a business school dean. As it adds, the exact amount is highly variable because it depends on the university's prestige, whether it is public or private, and the fee model used by the firm. Based on the first two of these, CSU likely paid closer to the low end of the above continuum. CSU also almost certainly agreed to a fixed flat-fee model, where fees range from...

A new study by TSYS School computer scientist Yi Zhou and TSYS School students Prudhvi Raj Nelapatla and Elijah Starkey  asserts that the rapid growth of large language models has made training energy efficiency  a major systems and sustainability challenge. As they explain, training requires substantial computation,  memory, communication, and electrical energy, yet the literature often treats runtime,  floating-point operations, memory, communication, cost, energy, and carbon as inter changeable indicators of efficiency. To examine these issues, the trio of researchers  critically reviewed 54 research papers and  one supporting software tool across measurement and carbon accounting, model and  numerical efficiency, memory and communication, distributed planning, GPU power con trol, carbon-aware scheduling, lifecycle design, and reliability. They classified evidence as  direct, modeled, simulated, reported-comparison, or enabling, while they in...

The Turner College Awards & Scholarships Committee is making progress to restore the financial stipends to the organization's annual faculty and staff awards. The committee chair, management professor Mark James , has been working overtime to provide the needed information to Kimberly Gill,  the Interim Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs in the CSU Provost's Office and point-person for that office on this project. As explained by Gill, under the USG Incentive Compensation and Rewards Policy, any award with a monetary value must be part of an incentive plan approved by the USG Office of Fiscal Affairs and Office of Human Resources before it may be awarded or paid. Individual college awards are not submitted to the System Office individually. Instead, they must be included in CSU's institutional incentive plan. The approval process for that to happen requires information be provided to the USG regarding (1) purpose, (2) eligibility, (3) nomination process, (4) award c...

New research by Turner College management professor Johnny Ho, Yaojie Li of the University of New Orleans, David Ang of Auburn University at Montgomery, and Tristan Shytle of Home Depot, explains that supply chain management is a dynamic business concept that continually adapts  to the evolving market landscape. Dating back to the ninth century, individuals have engaged in the trade  of goods, which requires a number of interconnected systems that revolve around the ideas of trust,  risk, and opportunity. Supply chain management addresses critical issues and frequently uncovers inefficiencies in  current models and solution approaches. To better understand and mitigate these inefficiencies, Ho and his co-authors state that  there is a growing focus on researching and implementing supply chain risk management, which  fosters transparency among all supply chain participants, enhancing the likelihood of a  seamless process with optimal efficiency. While g...

Nominations from the Turner College for the 2026 CSU Faculty and Staff Awards will soon be named. Each April, CSU confers awards to faculty for teaching excellence, research and scholarship, service, the scholarship of teaching, teaching innovation, graduate education, online teaching excellence, and creative endeavors. At the most recent awards ceremony in April of this year, Turner College economist Wen Shi won the CSU Teaching Innovation Award, joining Turner College accounting professor Charles Boster on the stage, who won the CSU Chappell Graduate Faculty Award. During that same ceremony, TSYS School computer scientist Yesem Kurt Peker won the CSU Teaching Excellence Award.  In April of 2025, the TSYS School's Linqiang Ge won the CSU Online Teaching Excellence Award, while Turner College finance professor Brett Cotten won the CSU Chappell Graduate Faculty Award and Turner College accounting professor Jasmine Bordere won the CSU Scholarship of Teaching Award. Stay connect...