Cotten Delivers Student-Centered Rite of Passage Lecture

Shortly after promotion to full professor, each CSU faculty delivers a lecture to the university community as part of CSU’s “Rite of Passage” series. Turner College finance professor Brett Cotten recently delivered such a lecture inside the Schwob Library on CSU’s main campus. Unlike many such presentations, Cotten’s rite of passage lecture was student-centered, as he discussed his involvement with the Turner College’s chapter of the Financial Management Association, the premier student organization for finance majors. Cotten also described his mentorship of students who have represented the Turner College in various competitions, and his leadership on student field trips to the financial district in New York City. In keeping with the student-centered nature of the lecture, the multimedia portion of Cotten’s lecture included a number of humorous memes about the challenges today’s students face with finance concepts like margins, calls, puts, and stop losses, as well as their frustrations dealing with the use of Excel to develop spreadsheets and solve complex problems. At points, he related students’ struggles with finance to his extracurricular passion for rock climbing.

“I . . . [opened my presentation by talking] about some of the challenges in keeping students engaged in quantitative courses. I finished up talking about the importance of financial education, and how while we offer a few perspectives classes relating to personal finance, we really need to expand our financial education opportunities to better prepare our students for success in the future.”

Brett Cotten, November 2022

Cotten earned a BBA from the University of Georgia, an MBA from Georgia State University, and a PhD from Florida State University. He joined the Turner College finance faculty from a similar post at East Carolina University.

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