Turner Business

Deborah Kidder has been named the new dean of the Turner College of Business at Columbus State University.   She joined the Turner College in August of 2021 from the University of Hartford’s Barney School of Business, where she serves as a professor of management.   She previously served as the Barney School’s Associate Dean for Academic Management from 2018 to 2020, while prior to that (2014-2018) she served as Chair of the Department of Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship.   Dean Kidder began her academic career as an assistant professor of management at the University of Connecticut in 1996, after which she served on the management faculty at Towson University (2002-2006).   She received the Barney School’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2009, and Towson University’s Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year Award in 2004.   Her research interests include fairness and justice in the workplace and restorative justice, and her academic research appears in...