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Dean Kidder to Offer 'Fast-Paced' Graduate Course on Fort Moore

Jason Dennis of WTVM News Leader 9 spoke recently with officials at Fort Moore and others about CSU's new office spaces for military-connected students. As Dennis indicates, CSU has landed on a list of top 10 military friendly schools in the United States, and recently it unveiled something new for military-connected students. “Columbus State University helps our soldiers Be Moore,” Fort Moore Commanding General MG Curtis Buzzard said Fort Moore’s Commanding General using the motto of the newly renamed post, “Be Moore,” to describe the partnership with CSU, which Victory Media ranked as the 8th best military friendly school in America. Columbus State just unveiled a new headquarters for its 1,200 military-connected students, about 20% of the student body. Top leaders came out for the ribbon cutting of the new office spaces located in the Schuster Student Success Center on CSU's main campus. CSU is the first in Georgia to have a designated space like this also for active-duty service members, their spouses and dependents. 
     The university will also now be including in-person classes, fast-paced ones, on the Army installation next door. “Dean [Deb] Kidder of the business school is going to go over onto Fort Moore [soon] and teach over 3 weekends, we’re calling it this killer Kidder course,” Military Liaison Special Ast. to CSU President MG (Ret) Pat Donahoe said, referring to a course in the Turner College's M.S. program in organizational leadership. “Across many ranks, our soldiers seek higher education through CSU. That’s Captains that are a part of the Captains Career Course,” MG Buzzard added. “They could be halfway to a Masters degree when they walk across the stage at the end of the Captains Course and head back out to the Army,” MG (Ret) Donahoe also said. There will be no more mandated student fees for military-connected students either, except for on-campus parking. Advisors and counselors at the newly located CSU office will help these students with school-life-career balance, transitioning from military life to civilian learning, transferring past credits, and financial benefits. “Our relationship with Fort Moore has never been stronger,” new CSU President Stuart Rayfield said.
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