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The annual CSU Awards & Recognition Program is set for Tuesday, April 29, in the Lumpkin Center. The ceremony includes a light breakfast, to be served beginning at 8:30 am. The main program kicks off at 9:00 am. The annual ceremony includes presenting annual employee awards, recognizing milestone years of service, and celebrating this year's newest retirees. Several TSYS School and Turner College faculty have been nominated for this year's awards. Accounting's Jasmine Bordere is nominated for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, computer science's Hyrum Carroll is up for the Teaching Excellence Award, finance's Brett Cotten is a finalist for the Chappell Graduate Award, computer science's Linqiang Ge is a finalist for the Online Teaching Award, computer science's Rodrigo Obando is up for the Teaching Innovation Award, computer science's Lixin Wang is competing for the Research Excellence Award, and computer science's Jianhua Yang...

The recent series here at Turner Business  examining TSYS School and Turner College faculty who have published in A-level journals since 2021 has been a popular one. Some readers have inquired about career publications, rather than the more recent counts examined in that series. The table below provides career details. As indicated above, the 12 faculty in the TSYS School have combined to produce 41 A-level journal publications over their careers. These figures produce an average of 3.42 A-level journal publications per faculty member. As indicated in the final column of the table, 10 of the 12 TSYS School faculty, or 83.3% of the TSYS School faculty, contributed to these figures. Next, the 25 Turner Business faculty  have combined to produce 180 A-level journal publications over their careers. These figures produce an average of 7.20 A-level journal publications per faculty member.  As indicated in the final column of the table, 20 of the 25 Turner Business fa...

Turner College associate professor of accounting Charles Boster is one of three nominees for the 2025 Turner College Graduate Teaching Award. Boster teaches accounting in the MBA program, which moved to hybrid teaching schedules in Fall 2024. To accommodate this move, Boster revamped his course, including in- and out of-class activities along with scheduled topics. As part of that process, he added practice  exercises to develop application skills for fundamental concepts and altered  material sequencing to better align classroom activities and group project  deliverables. Learning assessments in Boster's accounting course include  vocabulary exercises, calculation exercises, and problem solving. In each case, he takes a formative approach to emphasize learning over grade performance. Joining Boster as a nominee is Kirk Heriot , the Crowley Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship. Heriot teaches in both the Georgia web MBA program and the Turner College's graduate-l...

TSYS School associate professor of computer science Rodrigo Obando and Turner College professor of finance Brett Cotten are the nominees for the 2025 Turner College Excellence in Service Award. Obando currently serves on the CSU Faculty Affairs and GenEd Committees, along with the TSYS School's Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. He also serves as an Anchor Judge in the selection of Honor College students who are pursuing scholarships at CSU, particularly the Presidential Scholarship. Professor Obando has been an Assistant Marshall at every CSU graduation for the past 20 years, and recently he has taken on the role of photographer for events such as faculty recognition ceremonies, Discovery Days, college fairs and CIMFest. Lastly, among other activities he has served as the academic advisor for the CSU chapter of the Georgia Game Developers Association and a new student organization named ColorStack.      Cotten currently serves on the CSU Sustainabi...

Columbus State University recently honored a dozen students, employees, alumni and community leaders with its annual Legacy Awards. Recipients of these awards included was  Lionel Haynes Jr. , who   received the Alumni Award . This award is presented to a CSU graduate who has demonstrated service in the community and/or to the university. A two-time Turner College graduate, Haynes was selected for his steadfast commitment to strengthening alumni engagement and university initiatives, and for his active engagement in the community.  Laury Petit , a current MSOL student in the Turner College, received the Kiongozi Award for Outstanding International Leadership .  Modeling “kiongozi,” or “leadership” in Swahili, this award is bestowed by the Center for Global Engagement on a graduating international student who has demonstrated campus involvement and academic leadership. Petit, a native of Vaureal, Frances, is studying organizational leadership with a focus in servant l...