Turner Business

Spring 2025 classes have begun and there are some important dates upcoming for Turner College and TSYS School students to mark in their calendars. First, schedule changes including refunds ends tonight, as does the grace period for tuition payment. The reinstatement period begins on Monday and continues through next Friday.

An October 2023 post  at Turner Business  described a new research project by TSYS School computer scientist Riduan Abid and his colleagues at the University of Montreal on Fog computing that sought to  improve the performance of privacy-aware Reinforcement Learning agents (i.e., agents that complete tasks within an uncertain environment) that optimize the execution delay of Internet of Things applications by minimizing waiting delay. We can now report that the study now appears in the February 2025 issue of Computer Communications , an A-level journal that  publishes scientific articles (both theory and practice) and survey papers covering all aspects of future computer communication networks (on all layers, except the physical layer), with a special attention to the evolution of the Internet architecture, protocols, services, and applications. Congratulations to Professor Abid on this accomplishment. A few Turner College and TSYS School faculty are closing in vari...

CSU's administration has released the names of Dean's List students from fall semester 2024. A significant portion of the list includes the names of Turner College and TSYS School students. These names span from Junior Abac-Vicente , a sophomore finance major, to Holden Whatley , a sophomore cybersecurity major, both of whom are from Columbus. The complete list is provided below for your enjoyment.

Public Relations Specialist for the Butler Center for Research and Economic Development, Natália Del Ducca C. Ferreira , is reaching out to the Turner College community to report that the Butler Center is conducting an urgent survey that is crucial for its ongoing research, and it would greatly appreciate your support in gathering responses. The purpose of the survey is to study population trends in Columbus by asking sophomore, junior, and senior students on their perception on working and living in Columbus. To ensure it gathers sufficient data, the Butler Center is requesting the opportunity to briefly visit Turner College classrooms to administer the survey to students. If you are willing to help, please let the Butler Center know your availability and it will coordinate a convenient time to visit your class. For online classes, a survey link can be distributed to students via e-mail.

CSU's administration has released the names of President's List students from fall semester 2024. A significant portion of the list includes the names of Turner College and TSYS School students. These names span from Camille Ahumada , a junior computer science major from Richmond, California, to Tyrese Youngblood , a junior cybersecurity major from Columbus. The complete list is provided below for your enjoyment.

After four years serving the TSYS School as Director of the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity, Patrick Aiken is departing for new career opportunities. He recently bid farewell to the TSYS School, and to an army of newly credential cybersecurity professionals, on his LinkedIn page. Turner Business is reposting that message here for the academic community to receive. After four “bursting-at-the-seams” years as the Director of the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity, I’m leaving Columbus State University and starting a new, exciting chapter in my career. This is my “farewell and thank you” post.  It’s been a blessing to have the opportunity to pour my heart and soul (and everything else) into building the most amazing (and effective) cybersecurity workforce development program I’ve ever seen.  The lives that have been permanently changed through the Cybersecurity Nexus Program at CSU and the impact the program has made on the local community have been unbelievable.  I’ll always che...

CSU faculty will have the opportunity to meet with new CSU Provost Shannon Campbell on Wednesday, January 22 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Rec Center on CSU's main campus. Campbell joins the CSU administration later this month from Appalachian State University, where she currently serves as an academe dean.

As pointed out in a 2023 essay in T he European Business Review , more attractive people seem to get better jobs, make more money, and supposedly have happier lives.  A new scholarly book by Turner College economist  Frank Mixon  and  Jasmine Bordere , an associate professor of accounting in the Turner College,   titled  The Beauty Premium in Academe: An Economic Approach  reviews much of the economics literature on the relationship between beauty and rewards, with particular attention to higher education. It begins with an examination of how beauty – their own and that of their peers and professors – works to benefit students in the academy, primarily through their admission to college and their grades whilst enrolled in college. From there it delves into the benefits of attractiveness to university faculty, primarily through student evaluations of their teaching effectiveness, the response by editors and ad hoc reviewers to their scholarly activity, ...

Construction on the exterior of the Synovus Center on CSU's main campus (the  SCCT Envelope Project) has been d elayed while awaiting the official Notice to Proceed (NTP) from GSFIC (o fficial approval to proceed was received on December 4, 2025). If all goes according to plan from here on, c onstruction fence installation will occur mid-week with detour signage placed during low campus activity to minimize disruptions. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The TSYS School recently  announced the completion of a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between Columbus State University and Future Academy - Higher Future Institute for Specialized Technological Studies in Egypt. According to Rania Hodhod , Director of the TSYS School, "It was an absolute pleasure to meet Dr. Sameh Habib, the Academy President, and Dr. Safia Abbas, the Academy Dean. Our fruitful discussions with the faculty have led to promising new avenues for collaboration, set to begin this spring semester.  I am incredibly excited about the implementation of our shared projects and the opportunities for student-to-student interactions, which promise to be a truly eye-opening experience for students at both institutions." I addition to Hodhod, thanks are also due  Eric Spears, Director of the Center for Global Engagement, for his support and efforts in making this agreement possible.