Five Turner College
faculty were recognized with awards at the College’s annual spring retreat
yesterday. Winning the Turner College’s 2023
Teaching Award was Becca Jones,
assistant professor of marketing. This
win capped off a big week for Jones, who yesterday also won the 2023 CSU
Teaching Innovation Award. John Finley, chair of the Turner
College’s Department of Management and Marketing, speaks highly of Jones’
teaching talents. “Becca consistently engages
in innovative activities in her teaching, including experiential learning
activities. She is a very talented, dedicated
and respected member of the Turner College and I am proud to have her as a
colleague in the department,” Finley stated to Turner Business. In one such
example of Finley’s comment, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jones
invited sales industry professionals to visit her virtual classes to speak
about their careers in sales and how the pandemic has impacted their jobs. Next, TSYS School assistant professor Yi Zhou won the Turner College’s 2023
Research & Scholarship Award. Zhou’s
research has been a consistent feature here at Turner Business over the past several months. Over this academic year (2022-23), his
research has been published by IEEE
Transactions on Cloud Computing and IEEE
Transactions on Network and Service Management, both A-level academic
journals. I addition to these, Zhou has
also recently published in IEEE Transactions on Computers and Software: Practice and Experience, among others. The third award, the 2023 Service Award, went
to Brett Cotten, professor of
finance. Like Jones, yesterday was huge
for Cotten, as he also took home the 2023 CSU Excellence in Teaching
Award. Brett currently serves as faculty
advisor for the Turner College’s chapter of the Financial Management
Association. He also served as faculty
advisor to the CSU team that participated in the Nobias Investing Challenge, a
global competition wherein students manage a simulated portfolio. The CSU team finished 17th overall
against institutions such as Yale University, University of Pennsylvania,
University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, Emory University, and
others. Lastly, Cotten currently serves
on four CSU committees, including the Institutional Review Board, the
Sustainability Committee, the Student Evaluation Committee, and the Athletic
Committee. Professor of finance Uma Sridharan won the 2023 Online
Teaching Award. Within only a few months
of her arrival in Columbus in July of 2016, Sridharan completed the required Quality
Matters for teaching an online courses at CSU. She also pioneered Quality Matters
certification of online courses within the Turner College by obtaining Quality Matters
certification for accounting principles, which, in 2016, was the first Quality Matters
certified course in the Department of Accounting and Finance. A nominee for CSU’s 2019 Educator of the Year
Award, Sridharan co-led led a study abroad tour in Ireland that same year (with
Neal Thomson). Finally, Jennifer
Pitts, professor of management information systems, won the 2023 Graduate
Teaching Award. For the past 15 years,
Pitts has served as instructor of record for a graduate level information
systems course that draws enrollments from both MBA and Organizational
Leadership students. She updated the
course in the fall of 2022 to include more hands-on projects and a new
presentation medium, Microsoft Sway, to research and present emerging
technologies. According to
Organizational Leadership student Boyana
Bjork, “This has been one of the most interesting and challenging classes I
have taken. It was a tough one for us from
the MSOL program, but I would highly recommend it to anyone!” Bjork’s opinion is shared by almost all of
Pitts’ students, as her teaching evaluation average from fall semester was a
4.95 (out of 5). Lastly, Pitts has also been
instrumental in developing and administering the graduate assessment program over
the past five years, part of which she served as the Turner College’s Graduate
Programs Director.
The Turner College's new marketing intern Lizzy Grant , a senior marketing major from Newnan who previously attended Gordon State College, where she played varsity soccer, and is scheduled to graduate from the Turner College in May of 2024, has hit the ground running in her new position. She recently played a large role in the creation of a video tour of the Synovus Center, the main campus home of the Turner College. The video helps to guide new students on where to go in the building and who they can talk to if they help. The video showcases the Student Services Center, the main lobby, and more. The video is played as part of a loop on video screens placed throughout the Synovus Center. Lizzy's list of activities at CSU is impressive. She is the Treasurer of the Turner College's Marketing Club, the President of Marketing for the Turner College's chapter of the Financial Management Association, and an Ambassador for the Turner College. She is also the Treasurer of her s
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