Joshua Brooks Wins 2024 Turner College Excellence inTeaching Award

Turner College associate professor of finance Joshua Brooks received the 2024 Turner College Excellence in Teaching Award at the organization's 2024 faculty and staff retreat on April 30. He previously won the 2022 Turner College Online Teaching Award and was nominated for the 2023 CSU Teaching Innovation Award. Brooks' performance in the classroom has always been exemplary, as evidenced by student evaluations of teaching. Being in the CSU environment has only added motivation to continue classroom excellence. "Columbus State University’s attitude towards effective pedagogy struck me from my very first day on campus. The wide array of professional development and the dedication to instruction were evident from instructors, to department chairs, to administration," Brooks explained. When coronavirus caught the world by surprise it dramatically accelerated many of the slowly moving forces of education innovation. When lockdown went into effect, Brooks taught himself video editing software and created a YouTube channel to begin posting short problem solving videos for each of his classes. He continues to build on this and has found it to be invaluable for teaching Business Analytics and Managerial Finance. I also began communicating each week with students through announcements and email. Speaking of his students, Brooks credits them for much of his classroom success. "I have been fortunate to have had a number of incredibly bright and highly motivated students who have shown a passion for excellence in their fields. They are a great source of encouragement to me, and their stories humble and motivate me to continue to develop and implement relevant online material. At the end of each semester, I take some time to write down a list of opportunities for improvement to incorporate in the next semester’s preparations. At times, I have also adjusted my online presence mid semester. Students are our primary customers. They are the reason we exist. They are the future of not just our organization but all organizations." Turner Business congratulates Joshua on this outstanding achievement.

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Grant Hits Ground Running as New Turner College Marketing Intern

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

Jung Exploring Influence of Confucianism on Luxury Brand Performance in China, Japan and South Korea

In a recent chat with Turner Business , Turner College professor of marketing Sungwoo Jung made the point that luxury brands are gaining the degree of influence in many developing countries that they enjoy now in developed countries. He has been pondering this issue as part of his international marketing research program, which typically focuses on advertising, pioneering advantages and multi-cultural analysis. Currently, Jung is concentrating his energies on a cross-cultural analysis of brand equity that highlights luxury brands’ performance. His research finds that China, Japan and South Korea have each seen an increase in market share for luxury brands in recent years. As Jung explained to Turner Business , “These three countries share a common philosophical background – Confucianism.” With that point in mind, Jung and his coauthors are currently engaged in an investigation of how Confucianism influences consumer behavior in these three Asian countries, and how that behavior im

Turner College Grad Publishes Academic Study on Corporate Culture and Strategy

Former Turner College student Tamara Todorova , now an associate professor of economics at American University in Bulgaria (AUB), recently published a study on corporate culture and strategy. Todorova earned an MBA from the Turner College in 1996 and then went on to earn a doctorate in international economics from the University of Economics - Varna in 2001. She has been on the faculty at AUB since August of 2000. Todorova's study, which appears in the current issue of the International Journal of Business Performance Management , investigates how corporate culture helps to economize on the transaction costs of internal organization. As she explains, the dimensions of corporate culture that assist in this task include increasing trust and reducing intrafirm opportunism. Todorova's study demonstrates that setting common goals and a common direction reduces the sizeable costs of internal organization. Tamara's prior research appears in Economics of Transition , International

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