Turner College associate professor of finance Joshua Brooks was honored in a big way during the 2024 CSU Faculty Awards Ceremony when he received the 2024 CSU Online Teaching Award. Brooks, who also won the 2024 Turner College Excellence in Teaching Award, has collaborated with various divisions within CSU to acquire U.S. Department of Education funding for the creation of a financial literacy program to support underprepared students in terms of retention, progression and graduation. Through this program, Brooks has developed research-based financial literacy teaching and learning modules that help students gain a foundational understanding of budgeting. In addition, Brooks has developed an online course, PERS 1506, that focuses students on personal finance topics. This course was developed in collaboration with the First-Year Experience program at CSU. Receipt of this award made April 30, 2024, a big day for Brooks. It also added to his recent growing body of excellence in teaching at CSU as he previously won the 2022 Turner College Excellence in Online Teaching Award. Turner Business congratulates Joshua on this outstanding achievement.
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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