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Turner College alum Mat Edmunds has been named the new Director of Graduate Admissions for the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Edmunds, who earned an MSOL degree from the Turner College in 2019, has spent the past six  years as the Director of Graduate Admissions for the Stetson-Hatcher School of Business at Mercer University. Congratulations to Mat on this phenomenal professional achievement.

Turner College professor of finance Uma Sridharan is completing her last semester on the faculty at CSU. Sridharan joined the Turner College (as Chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance) about 10 years ago from Lander University. She won the 2023 Turner College Online Teaching Award, while, four years earlier (in 2019), she received CSU's Educator of the Year Award. Over the course of her academic career, Sridharan published research in Financial Management , Financial Review , International Journal of Auditing and Supply Chain Management , all classified as A-level journal outlets. She closes her academic career with 675 Google Scholar citations, a number that will continue to climb in the years to come. Turner Business congratulates Sridharan on her retirement and wishes her the best going forward.

CSU alum Brett Reichert enrolled in the Turner College's MSOL program in 2013 as an Aide-de-Camp Infantry Commandant in the U.S. Army and a graduate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Kentucky. He completed the degree requirements for the MSOL degree in 2014 and three years later, in 2017, began pursuit of a master's degree in policy management at Georgetown University. During this period, he rose to Aide-de-Camp Deputy Commanding General, Regional Command East in Afghanistan, and then over to Company Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. After completing the master's degree program at Georgetown University, Reichert moved to a staff position in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later to Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army. Prior to entering Cornell University, he served as a Brigade Executive Officer in the 4th Infantry Division. Reichert's most recent professional experience is Battalion Commander in...

During the academic year 2025-2026 that is now coming to a close, t he University System of Georgia (USG) continued its temporary waiver of test score requirements. With state colleges already test optional, this meant no test scores were required for admission at 22 of USG’s 25 public colleges and universities.  The temporary waiver did not apply to the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia and Georgia College & State University.  For academic year 2025-2026, the 22 remaining institutions had two options for making admissions decisions: (1)  schools could use the Freshman Index formula that includes the student’s high school grade point average and test scores for either the SAT or ACT, and (2)  schools could use a test-optional approach that considers a student’s grade point average on the required high school curriculum without a standardized test score at various minimum grade point averages. For Augusta University and Georgia State Unive...

Georgia Trend magazine's Jennifer Hafer recently penned a lengthy report on the Columbus economy that readers of Turner Business might find useful. The text of that report appears below.  

With next week's departure of Deborah Kidder  to Kutztown University, where she will serve as dean of the business school, Turner Business decided to re-examine  the Google Scholar citations that are attributed to the research by the Turner College's remaining business faculty. The Turner College currently will have 27 total tenured and tenure-track faculty following Kidder's departure , including three administrators. Hence, the corps of instruction count will stand at 24. The Turner College's remaining corps of instruction is associated with 21,080, for an average of 878.3 Google Scholar citations per faculty.  When the administrators are included, the total rises to 21,571 Google Scholar citations while the average falls to 798.9 Google Scholar citations per faculty.  When the data are broken down by departmental unit, the 10 members of the corps of instruction in accounting and finance are responsible for 7,786 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 778.6 G...