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Boster, Heriot, Hossain Nominated for 2025 Turner College Graduate Teaching Award

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 webMBA program and the Turner College's graduate-level organizational leadership program. Students in Heriot's webMBA propose a business model as a team, including two different ways to test it, and a PowerPoint pitch to potential investors. The business model describes how a new venture will create and deliver value. Heriot utilizes a "Recalcitrant Director Case," which is a seemingly short case about what a Board of Directors should do with regard to the creation of a temporary manufacturing plant that will be used while a new plant is under construction. According to Heriot, the case is useful in raising questions about ethics and full disclosure.
The third nominee for this award is Amjad Hossain, a computer scientist in the TSYS School. Hossain teaches a course in algorithms analysis and design, among others, in the TSYS School's graduate programs. He uses ClassPoint, which is a tool for including interactive quizzes in PowerPoint, during lectures in order to provide interactive learning opportunities. His students also write programs using Java/Python to solve exercise problems and submit them through ClassPoint for immediate feedback. Since arriving at CSU in August, Hossain has recorded video lectures for all the modules in the online version of his course. He is now working to increase the number of programming assignments and refine the video transcripts. For his other graduate-level courses, Hossain has found project-based learning to be most suitable for students.


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