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...
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....