The Turner College's Crowley Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kirk Heriot, announced at the Fall 2025 Welcome Back Event on Monday that CSU is now home to the new Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The Center, which Heriot stated "will be mostly for students," will be located in Room 347, which is on the third floor of the Synovus Center. Heriot also informed those in attendance that the new Center will be working with local non-profits like SCORE, the Columbus Chamber and the Small Business Development Center, in formalizing the existing BizPitch competition and other activities that he has been doing on an individual basis in the past. Stay tuned for more information on the Center's logo, the buildout of Room 347, and the new website, which is slated to include a blog.
Officials in the Turner College's Butler Center for Research and Economic Development recently put the finishing touches on an extensive report on trends in educational programs and occupations in the Columbus area. The report also includes data on business and technology trends. According to Fady Mansour , Director of the Butler Center, there are several key takeaways from the report regarding 10 occupational gaps that currently exist in the Columbus area. First, software development occupation exhibits the biggest labor shortage, with the report adding that the TSYS School has a bachelor's degree program in information technology along with a new AI track for the bachelor's degree in computer science, both of which can qualify students for this occupation. Other educational programs are in demand, such as computer programming and cloud computing. Second, there is a gap of 30 employees per year in general and operations management. This gap could be addressed by the Turn...

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