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CSU President Stuart Rayfield will lead a town hall meeting on CSU's enrollment declines at 2:00 pm on Friday, October 30, 2026. The CSU Faculty Senate announced the forthcoming event at its October meeting yesterday afternoon, at which time it also reported the latest enrollment headcounts for CSU. According to the latest data, CSU's overall headcount for Fall 2026 is down 2.1% from Fall 2025. Within this statistic is a 1.6% decline in undergraduate student headcount and more than a 3.4% drop in graduate student headcount. Much of the town hall presentation will center around the After-Action Report on Enrollment  that Rayfield commissioned a group of CSU faculty and staff to produce and deliver to her by September 30, 2026. As requested, that report was completed and delivered to Rayfield by that deadline. Some of the results from that report are already part of campus discussions concerning the enrollment decline.

According to reports from readers, CSU is expanding the reach of its advertising in the effort to secure a new dean of the Turner College to include placement of ads with The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed . Additionally, an advertisement on the AACSB's website is also forthcoming. These will certainly boost attempts to provide a thorough search, although time is running out for applications to be submitted for the truncated search that is expected to name a new dean in December. A check by Turner Business indicates that these new advertising outlets are not yet displaying an ad for the Turner College. Thus, prospective candidates must continue to apply through the Buffkin/Baker portal at the moment. The window for applications is scheduled to close on October 23, 2026. In other news, the Turner College Awards & Scholarship Committee has initiated contact with the CSU Office of Human Resources in hopes of expediting the return of monetary stipends accompan...

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: Where should an advertisement for a new business school dean be placed?  Below is an image of Google AI's thorough response. According to Google AI, to find a traditional academic scholar to serve as a business school dean there are three "standard, non-negotiable platforms" to utilize in the search. Two of these are The Chronicle of Higher Education  and Inside Higher Ed , and Turner Business has been discussing for some time how Buffkin/Baker opted to not utilize either of these, or the third option, HigherEdJobs . According to Google AI, these three platforms are "widely monitored by sitting deans, associate deans, and...

With only three weeks remaining for candidates to submit applications for consideration in the search for a new Turner College dean, it appears as though the advertisement for the position will not appear in either The Chronicle of Higher Education or  Inside Higher Ed , nor on CSU's employment portal webpages or the AACSB's website. Combined with the brevity of a search that is expected to have a candidate selected in December, the decision by Buffkin/Baker to make the application process available only through its website has readers of Turner Business somewhat perplexed. One reader has suggested, however, that these decisions make sense if the goal is to hire someone who is already affiliated with a USG-member institution. That sounds reasonable, and perhaps the first pool of candidates in this case would be individuals currently serving as associate deans within the business schools at the eight institutions in the top two USG institutional tiers. Among the research univer...

CSU's Executive Director of Strategic Communication + Marketing, Michael Tullier, announced on his LinkedIn page this morning that CSU is in the exciting time of searching for new deans to lead its business school and its letters and sciences college. Tullier's LinkedIn post (see below) also includes weblinks to separate CSU pages describing the search process and expectations for each opening. These are the pages that CSU Provost Dustin Anderson referred to in his Fall 2026 welcome back presentation to Turner College faculty and staff in August. Our visit to the webpage linked in Tullier's LinkedIn post provides its own link to a glossy digital brochure containing information about CSU and the Turner College.   Despite these developments, the job opening has not yet been included on the jobs portal on CSU's own website. Even more importantly, it has yet to appear in The Chronicle of Higher Education , the gold standard for announcements of executive openings in academi...

CSU President Stuart Rayfield provided a Fall 2026 enrollment update during the Sept-2026 CSU Faculty Senate meeting. According to Rayfield, enrollment has fallen by 3% since Fall 2025. Additionally, student credit hour production is down 3.4% this fall compared to Fall 2025. Within these statistics, the number of new undergraduates attending CSU rose by 7.7% between Fall 2025 and Fall 2026. The number of graduate students is up 1.6% over this same time frame. While the good news is that the retention of first-time full-time freshmen enrollment is up to 75% compared to Fall 2025's 72%, retention of all undergraduate students is down, as is graduate student retention. Both of these numbers are down 6.2%. According to Rayfield, if this trend had remained flat, CSU would have been up on recruitment. These returning students will keep CSU down for several years even if it retains students.